The veracious K'ang Hsi informs us that under their successors, the T'angs, "for the first time a wall was built, and the city was named Kinling." This may be true about this precise site, but it is hardly accurate to ignore that within a short distance the capital had lain. When the Tatars were expelled and the Sui dynasty founded the Third Empire, they shifted their headquerters away to the danger point of the north. When the Tatars had conquered the original China, the basin of the Yellow River, while the Chinese held the Yangtze basin, the Eastern Tsin established their capital here, say from 317 AD. When the Second Empire broke up with the Hans, a kingdom called Wu was formed in the lower basin of the Yangtze, and its capital was at one time located at Soochow at another period it must have been near here - some say it was on this very site. Under the Han dynasty, Sun Ch'iian2 called it Kien Yeh." Under Ch'in Shih Huang Ti it was made the seat of a district and a prefecture, at which time it was called Mo-ling. was by that ancient book, 'The Tribute of Yii,' included in the region of Yangchow. ![]() To this picturesque tradition may be added another, recorded on the spot by the Vermillion Pencil of the Emperor K'ang Hsi, whose authority for events some two or three thousand years before his time is unimpeachable: "This place. Thus about 212 BC, there was built a camp, Kienk'ang, " Joy Established," which remained for centuries guarding the treasure and ensuring that no Emperor should be born hence to disturb the ruler de facto. ![]() And in due time the place was located where the dragon abode. He knew the omen: there was a dragon in that mountain, and a dragon's business is to produce Emperors, therefore this dragon must be interviewed, and some arrangement must be made with him. Rising early the next morning and pushing aside the portiere at his tent door, he saw above the mountain across the water a rosy cloud, and in the cloud the outline of an Emperor. On his famous tour to inspect the dominions he had annexed, he pitched his camp on the north of the Great River. The story of Nanking begins with that great conqueror and reformer, the Great Ch'in. That spelling has since been changed to Nanjing, using the Pinyin romanization of the Chinese characters. The name of the capital city of China was spelled as Nanking. Strictly, the words mean "Southern Capital," "Northern Capital." Their names are Kiangning and Shun-t'ien, though the nomenclature of Peking is a study in itself. Some commenters urged Kail to document the photos and post them online to spread awareness of the brutality of the event, pointing out that some people have disputed the estimated death toll or deny that the massacre happened at all to absolve Japan.Nanking and Peking are titles, not names. "This is the most disturbing thing I've ever seen in my career, and I desperately need your guys' help," Kail said in the video. In his original video, he said that he was posting about the album to alert the research community and that he couldn't post many of the photos on TikTok because they violated its community guidelines. Kail said online that the gruesome photos in the album depict bodies piled on the streets, executions and graphic torture. The death toll is estimated to be 40,000 to 300,000 the mass graves and the destruction of the city have made a precise count "impossible," according to the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation, which recorded and preserved testimonies from survivors in a digital archive. The city's name was previously romanized as Nanking.ĭuring the six-week massacre, the Japanese Imperial Army executed residents, looted and burned buildings and raped tens of thousands of women. The Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanjing, was the mass killing of Chinese civilians and soldiers by the Japanese Imperial Army from December 1937 to January 1938, after Japan seized Nanjing, then the capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. 'The most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen in my career' Still, as of Wednesday, his social media posts remained live, and people continued to question them. He said he couldn’t elaborate further on the advice of his lawyer. Kail told NBC News that the photos turned out to be from Shanghai, not Nanjing. “And finally when I made that video it was just a lot of emotion I was digesting, and speaking without thinking," he said. The client’s album, he said, "screwed" him up. ![]() "And so what you saw is what I made, and I was not expecting it to go global so fast. "I thought it was of extreme historical significance no matter what was in it," Kail said in a statement to NBC News.
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