Credits and sources.

Photographs

Every photograph on this site comes from Wikimedia Commons and is used under a Creative Commons licence. Each one was cropped and resized, and a purple-to-gold colour grade was applied to make the tinted versions you see before an image turns to full colour.

The adapted versions are shared under the same licence as their originals, including the share-alike terms of the CC BY-SA photographs. The photographers do not endorse this site.

Where the facts were checked

Dates, measurements and names were cross-checked against the English Wikipedia articles below in November 2026 and then rewritten. Ticket rules, opening hours and reservation requirements change often, so treat those lines as a starting point and confirm with the official channels.

• Nanjing
• Purple Mountain (Nanjing)
• City Wall of Nanjing
• Zhonghua Gate, Nanjing
• Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum
• Xiao Mausoleum
• Nanjing Fuzimiao
• Qinhuai River
• Xuanwu Lake
• Presidential Palace (Nanjing)
• Nanjing Museum
• Jiming Temple
• Yuejiang Tower
• Niushoushan
• Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders
• Porcelain Tower of Nanjing
• Meiling Palace
• Qixia Mountain
• Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge
• Nanjing Metro

Films:

• Spring Fever (2009 film)
• The Flowers of War
• So Young (film)
• Blind Massage
• Wolf Warrior
• Love Will Tear Us Apart (2021 film)

Type, motion and map

Typefaces: Instrument Serif, Inter and Noto Serif SC, all under the SIL Open Font License. Motion: GSAP with ScrollTrigger, and Lenis for smooth scrolling. The particle scene on the home page is hand-written WebGL.

The pixel map lists its own data sources inside the map page.

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