A Hundred and Eight Strokes
The Ming tower at the exact centre of the walled city, its daily bell, and the 2001 reconstruction.
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Nankai District
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The Two Schools of the Walled Town
A temple begun on a commander's donated house in 1436, with a county school added beside the prefectural one in 1734.
Forty Centimetres of Painted Clay
A workshop opened by Zhang Mingshan at eighteen, a first prize at Panama in 1915, and five generations.
Four Hundred and Twenty-Nine Students
A private school that became a university in 1919, and was burned on 30 July 1937.
The First Modern University
An imperial approval of October 1895, four changes of name, and a campus with four lakes on Weijin Road.
The Stage Where Sun Yat-sen Spoke
A guild hall raised by Guangdong merchants in 1907, with a ten-metre stage under a rotating caisson.
The Temple the Street Was Built Around
A Mazu temple of 1326 with two 25-metre banner poles, wrecked in the 1960s and reopened as a museum in 1986.
A Street Rebuilt in 1986
How two lanes around a Mazu temple became a 687-metre shopping street, and what the rebuilding kept.
Silk, Bamboo and a Street of Shops
A workshop opened on Drum Tower East Street in the 1890s, and a craft that folds to a fraction of its size.