Qualla: Taierzhuang https://qualla.com/taierzhuang en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/5/s/taierzhuang-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Taierzhuang https://qualla.com/taierzhuang Taierzhuang: Introduction https://qualla.com/taierzhuang/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. In 1938, the Japanese army reduced the ancient canal town of Taierzhuang to rubble. On the eve of the battle, the town had 5,000 households, 20,000 buildings, 437 alleys, and 13 docks serving the Grand Canal traffic that had sustained it for centuries. After the fighting, almost nothing remained. Seventy years later, in 2008, the city of Zaozhuang announced it would rebuild the ancient town from the ground up. Today, Taierzhuang stands alongside Warsaw as one of only two cities in the world destroyed in World War II and reconstructed as a world cultural heritage site.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/5/s/taierzhuang-wk/ww5s-taierzhuang-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Taierzhuang: At the Center of the Golden Waterway https://qualla.com/taierzhuang/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Taierzhuang sits at the midpoint of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, at the junction of Shandong and Jiangsu provinces. The town's fortunes rose and fell with the canal's traffic. During the Tang dynasty, the Tai family established a village here called Taijiazhuang. By the Ming...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/5/s/taierzhuang-wk/ww5s-taierzhuang-at-the-center-of-the-golden-waterway.mp3 0:06 2 full Taierzhuang: Walls Built for a Canal Town https://qualla.com/taierzhuang/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The fortification of Taierzhuang began in 1647, the fourth year of the Qing dynasty's Shunzhi Emperor. Built beside the canal, the walled city stretched 1.1 kilometers east to west and one kilometer north to south. Six gates pierced the walls: Yangsheng to the east, Taicheng Jiuz...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/5/s/taierzhuang-wk/ww5s-taierzhuang-walls-built-for-a-canal-town.mp3 0:06 3 full Taierzhuang: The Battle That Erased a Town https://qualla.com/taierzhuang/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. In the spring of 1938, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Chinese Nationalist forces under General Li Zongren made a stand at Taierzhuang against the advancing Japanese army. The Battle of Taierzhuang, fought from late March to early April, was the first major Chinese victory o...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/5/s/taierzhuang-wk/ww5s-taierzhuang-the-battle-that-erased-a-town.mp3 0:06 4 full Taierzhuang: Rebuilt from Memory and Stone https://qualla.com/taierzhuang/ Photo credit Slb nsk, CC BY-SA 4.0. The reconstruction announced on April 8, 2008, the 70th anniversary of the battle's victory, was an act of cultural restoration on a massive scale. The rebuilt ancient town covers two square kilometers, with 11 functional divisions and 29 scenic spots. The Taierzhuang Battle Memo...

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