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Xi'anthe Terracotta Army

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Narrated by The Historian 44 km · about 36 min · 7 stories

From the walled city to the First Emperor's tomb: Chang'an at its cosmopolitan height — the biggest city on Earth — the Great Mosque's Chinese courtyards, the Xi'an Incident that changed China's civil war, and the buried army still standing in formation.

The stories

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  1. 1
    Xi'an Shi, Shaanxi

    The 14th National Games Venue

  2. 2
    Xi'an Shi, Shaanxi

    Construction of the Xi'an Wall

  3. 3
    Xi'an Shi, Shaanxi

    The Great Mosque of Xi'an

  4. 4
    Xi'an Shi, Shaanxi

    The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda

  5. 5
    Xi'an Shi, Shaanxi

    The Xi'an Incident at Huaqing

  6. 6
    Xi'an Shi, Shaanxi

    The Cosmopolitan Height of Chang'an

  7. 7
    Xi'an Shi, Shaanxi

    Xinfengzhen Railway Marshalling Yard

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.