A tower rebuilt, and the sentence that stayed
The Tengwang Pavilion has burned and been rebuilt for centuries. What survived every fire is one line of a preface written in 675.
Nanchang.
Nanchang is the provincial capital, more than two thousand two hundred years old, with the Gan River and the Fu River running through it and a quarter of its area given over to water. Its history is written on the surface: a Song pagoda, a Ming-era tower rebuilt in 1989, and the hotel that became the headquarters of the August 1st Uprising of 1927. Start with those, then follow the river north.
Nanchang
The room where the date was chosen
The 1927 uprising that opened the Chinese civil war was organised in a hotel that had been built four years earlier.
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Visitors beside the red columns of Tengwang Pavilion, with Nanchang’s modern buildings beyond. Photograph from 2024.UserAlbert / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Proportionally resized and converted to WebP; no cropping or alteration of the scene.
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Photographed in 2015, the historic headquarters facade in Nanchang shows red-framed windows, balconies and an arched entrance.Zhou Guanhuai — “八一”起义指挥部旧址.jpg / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Converted proportionally to WebP for display and thumbnail; no cropping, retouching or upscaling. The image retains the source license.
