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Nanking

[nan-king, nahn-king]

noun

Older Spelling.
  1. Nanjing.



Nanking

  1. See Nanjing.

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On his tour, Mr Neogi shows participants the building which housed the first posh restaurant - Nanking - in the 1920s.

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The clip, which came from a documentary of the Nanking massacre, depicted Japanese soldiers killing civilians in the former Chinese capital.

Some right-wing Japanese politicians have downplayed the death toll or denied outright that the Nanking atrocity happened.

Remaining on campus, he graduated from Smith Theological Seminary three years later and departed for China, teaching English and Bible classes at the University of Nanking.

A man from Nanking, China studying at the university in Venice struck up a conversation.

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