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Nov 2022
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315 - City in Chinese with ShaoLan and A...

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Learn the word for “city” in Chinese along with top historian on the Liao dynasty, Jonathan Dugdale. Find out why some of the Chinese place names used today were given to cities in China over a thousand years ago.

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