Streets Worth a Stroll in Nanking 3 – Nanjing University

A slight cheat here perhaps as university campuses are often a bit better preserved than ordinary housing or property deemed to be of some commercial value. Nanjing University is one of China’s oldest surviving institutions and still rated fairly highly – you can go back to 258 CE, which is a bit of a stretch – the campus here is really from the university that was created in 1902 and flourished in the 1920s, obviously during the ‘Nanking decade’. There’s a whole load more history here if you want it. Anyway, on a sunny day it’s a nice stroll away from the wider Republican era boulevards that criss cross Nanking and there’s a bit of green to sit around on too.