For other uses, see Chinese wall (disambiguation).
Ming dynasty wall of Pingyao
Chinese city walls (traditional Chinese: 城牆; simplified Chinese: 城墙; pinyin: chéngqiáng; "city wall") refer to defensive walls built to protect important towns and cities in pre-modern China. In addition to walls, Chinese city defenses also included fortified towers and gates, as well as moats and ramparts around the walls.
The Great Wall of China (traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng, literally "ten thousand li long wall") is a series...
thickness of Chinesecitywalls prevented larger cannons from being developed, since even industrial era artillery had trouble breaching Chinesewalls. Eupseongs...
of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong. Built as an Imperial Chinese military fort, the walledcity became a de jure enclave after the New Territories were...
The CityWall of Nanjing (Chinese: 南京城墙; pinyin: Nánjīng chéngqiáng) was designed by the Hongwu Emperor (1328–1398) after he founded the Ming Dynasty...
determined defence of the Great Wall made it a symbol of Chinese patriotism and the resoluteness of the Chinese people. The Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong...
The Beijing city fortifications were a series of walls with towers and gates constructed in the city of Beijing, China in the early 1400s until they were...
The Kowloon WalledCity Park is a park in Kowloon City, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The Kowloon WalledCity had been a military stronghold since the 15th century...
Forbidden City (Chinese: 紫禁城; pinyin: zǐ jìn chéng) is a palace complex in Dongcheng District, Beijing, China, at the center of the Imperial City of Beijing...
The Chinesecity tier system (Chinese: 中国城市等级制) is an unofficial hierarchical classification of Chinesecities in the People's Republic of China (PRC)...
The Seoul CityWall (Korean: 서울 성곽) or Hanyangdoseong (Korean: 한양도성; Hanja: 漢陽都城) is a defensive wall first built by the King Taejo of Joseon dynasty...
10639The WalledCity of Taizhou Fu (Chinese: 台州府城) stands as a cultural preservation area and tourist attraction in Linhai, Zhejiang, China. Serving as...
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in the History of Relations between China and The West in Medieval Times" [in Chinese], to be found in the Chinese volume General Research on the Site...
ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, hosting Chinese populations representing all 34 provincial-level administrative units of China. The Chinese American...
cannons, which played a part in the city's fall to Ottoman forces in 1453 but were not able to breach its walls. The walls were largely maintained intact during...
Wall Street is a street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Eight city blocks long, it runs between Broadway in the west and...
The CityWall of Suzhou is the remains of the old protective wall that once surrounded Suzhou in Jiangsu Province in eastern China. The state of Wu is...
Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd. (GWM) is a Chinese privately owned automobile manufacturer headquartered in Baoding, Hebei. Founded in 1984, it is currently...
The following cities have, or historically had, defensive walls. Algiers Ghardaïa Timimoun Al-Fustat Cairo Damietta See List of Egypt castles, forts,...
The Taipei CityWalls (Chinese: 臺北府城; pinyin: Táiběi Fǔchéng) were constructed in 1884 in Taipeh Prefecture, Taiwan, Qing dynasty (modern-day Taipei,...
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