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And the most famous dish in the capital is named after it: the Peking roast duck, a dish said to be first written into a recipe book in 1330 by Hu Sihui, an inspector of the imperial kitchens when the capital of China was in the city of Nanjing.
BBC: The melting pot of Chinese cuisine
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But they come to this city, once the capital of China, because they are able to earn enough to send a few yuan home to families still in the countryside.
FORBES: Chongqing: China's Lab Experiment In Urbanization
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An exceptionally well-knit documentary about the horrifying events that took place in Nanking between December, 1937, and March, 1938, when the Japanese Army fell upon the city, then the capital of China, and slaughtered as many as three hundred thousand soldiers and civilians and raped twenty thousand women.
NEWYORKER: Nanking