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Follow the Pearl River Delta westward to Jiangmen and eastward to Chaozhou and Shantou. The points orient you to the journal’s six cities and selected named places.

Guangdong, China
Guangzhou Foshan Shenzhen Chaozhou Shantou Jiangmen Nanyue King Museum: Royal Tomb Nanyue King Museum: Palace Site Chen Clan Academy Foshan Ancestral Temple Nanfeng Kiln and Shiwan Qinghui Garden Dapeng Fortress Dafen Oil Painting Village Guangji Bridge Han Yu Memorial Shantou Qiaopi Museum Kaiping Zili Village Liyuan Bird Paradise Hongxian Nü Art Center Bao’an Labor Museum

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Guangzhou.

At Chen Clan Academy, people from across Guangdong built a shared address in the provincial capital. Around a tea-house table, smaller gatherings take shape over dim sum. Guangzhou's stories move between these scales: family, neighborhood, performance and a city whose ancient royal sites survive beneath later streets. Shawan adds instrumental music and milk desserts to this varied cultural landscape.

Silk-threaded jade burial suit from the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue
Silk-threaded jade burial suit from the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue.

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Silk-threaded jade burial suit from the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue

Guangzhou

Nanyue King Museum: Royal Tomb

A royal tomb and its burial objects open a close view of ancient Nanyue.

 Water channels and stonework in the preserved Nanyue palace garden

Guangzhou

Nanyue King Museum: Palace Site

A stone pool, winding channels and layers of building preserve a royal landscape beneath Guangzhou.

 The main entrance and ornamented roofline of Chen Clan Academy

Guangzhou

Chen Clan Academy

A shared clan institution became a museum of craft, with ornament across roofs, walls and doors.

City corners

The 2025 Hongxian Nü exhibition at Guo Moruo Memorial Hall in Beijing
A short introduction

Hongxian Nü Art Center

Exhibitions, performance and artistic exchange continue Hongxian Nü's Cantonese opera legacy.

 Close-set roofs and raised gables in Shawan Ancient Town
A short introduction

Shawan Ancient Town

He-family music, ginger-milk curd and floating-color processions give this Panyu town a varied cultural life.
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  1. Silk-threaded jade burial suit from the tomb of King Wen of Nanyue.Nanyue King Museum; photographer not identified. · Rights information Photo source ↗ Proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or watermark removal.
  2. Water channels and stonework in the preserved Nanyue palace garden.Nanyue King Museum; photographer not identified. · Rights information Photo source ↗ Proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or watermark removal.
  3. The main entrance and ornamented roofline of Chen Clan Academy.Shujianyang / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or watermark removal.
  4. The 2025 Hongxian Nü exhibition at Guo Moruo Memorial Hall in Beijing.Guangzhou Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau; photographer not identified. · Rights information Photo source ↗ Proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or watermark removal.
  5. Close-set roofs and raised gables in Shawan Ancient Town.Guangzhou Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau; photographer not identified. · Rights information Photo source ↗ Proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or watermark removal.