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    Wanping Fortress, also known as Wanping Castle (Chinese: 宛平城; pinyin: Wǎnpíng Chéng), is a Ming Dynasty fortress or "walled city" in Fengtai District,...
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  • Wanping may refer to: Wanping, Hunan (万坪), a town in Yongshun County, Hunan, China Wanping Fortress, a walled fortress in Beijing, China Wangping (disambiguation)...
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    deploying reinforcements to surround Wanping. Later that night, a unit of Japanese infantry attempted to breach Wanping's walled defenses but were repulsed...
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    Situated at the eastern end of the bridge is the Wanping Fortress, a historic 17th-century fortress, with the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance...
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    Wanpingcheng station (Chinese: 宛平城站; pinyin: Wǎnpíngchéng zhàn; lit. 'Wanping Fortress station') is a station on Line 16 of the Beijing Subway. It opened...
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    empress dowager and Prince Chun. Before becoming a eunuch, An lived in Wanping Fortress, near Beijing. Empress Dowager Cixi regarded An as her favourite eunuch...
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    surrender of Japan on 2 September 1945. The museum is located inside the Wanping Fortress near the Lugou Bridge (Marco Polo Bridge) in Beijing's Fengtai District...
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    the Japanese began shelling the bridge and Wanping, launching an assault on the Chinese position at Wanping. When the Japanese attacked the bridge from...
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    Statue of Bethune at Wanping Fortress, Beijing...
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    Japanese army in China exchanged fire at the Marco Polo Bridge near the Wanping Fortress southwest of the city. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident triggered the...
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    Wanping Fortress, at the eastern end of the bridge Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, inside the fortress In...
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  • neighborhoods Huguang Guild Hall Liulichang Marco Polo Bridge and the Wanping Fortress Ming tombs (World Heritage Site) Old Summer Palace Pagoda of Cishou...
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  • Japanese army in China exchanged fire at the Marco Polo Bridge near the Wanping Fortress southwest of the city. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident triggered the...
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    Wanping Subdistrict (Chinese: 宛平街道; pinyin: Wǎnpíng Jiēdào), formerly known as Wanpingcheng Area, is a subdistrict in the northern part of Fengtai District...
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    Louis Temporale Statue of Bethune at Wanping Fortress, Beijing Born Louis Luigi Temporale (1909-10-27)October 27, 1909 Maiano, Italy Died May 22, 1994(1994-05-22)...
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    than 60,000 residents as well as a sculpture park, a war memorial, Wanping Fortress (Wanpingcheng) and many other attractions need better public transport...
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  • of Japan until the end of World War II. In 1937, another "incident" at Wanping led to fighting near Beijing that escalated into the Second Sino-Japanese...
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    Smaller garrison towns or fortifications include Diaoyu near Chongqing, Wanping county fortifications near Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing, the garrison town...
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