Nanjing:Two Pasts,One Future

On a hill overlooking the Yangtze River stands Yuejiang Tower.Though it could be eas- ily mistaken as hundreds of years old,it was in fact completed in 2001, more than 600 years after the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor,Zhu Yuanzhang,had first envisioned building a tower here that would embody the dynasty’s grandeur and aspirations. The city of Nanjing,capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province,accomplished