Nanjing

In a spring semester Area Studies field trip, students will visit the site of the Nanjing Massacre, where atrocities were committed by Japanese occupational forces during World War II, and the Monument of Aviation Martyrs, where WW II Allied, mostly American, aviators who fell in defending China are commemorated. Students might attend lectures given by a specialist on the Japanese occupation of Nanjing and a professor of Sino-US relations from the Johns Hopkins Center in Nanjing. Students might also visit the Presidential Palace, which housed China's first national president, the memorial tomb of Sun Zhongshan (Dr. Sun Yat-sen), considered the father of modern China in both the mainland and Taiwan, and other historic sites that witnessed significant events when Nanjing served four times as China's capital.


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