Who Made Wuxi’s Lake Views?
Follow a garden pavilion, a flour-company label and a restored shoreline to see the human decisions behind Wuxi’s lake scenery.
Wuxi.
Read Wuxi through its lake shores, family halls and the clay workshops of Yixing.
Lakeside views and Yixing clay
Reading Family Memory in Huishan’s Ancestral Halls
Tablets, genealogies, a hybrid facade and a low stone bridge reveal how Huishan makes different forms of remembrance visible.
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How to Read a Yixing Teapot
Look beyond the word “purple” to clay, joins, surface and authorship in the pottery city of Yixing.
Read the storyExplore more of the city
Taihu and Lihu
Lake scenery shaped by garden patrons and the work of restoring a shoreline.
Huishan Ancient Town
Ancestral halls, riverfront architecture and garden spaces preserve several kinds of memory.
Yixing
A distinct pottery city within Wuxi, where zisha turns a small vessel into a complex work of design.
Photo credits and rights
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The entrance to the Fan Zhongyan ancestral hall in Huishan Ancient Town.記小三 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
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A broad view across Taihu from Wuxi, photographed in April 2018.賈夢龍 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
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The Zhu Xi ancestral hall in Wuxi's Huishan Ancient Town.Remember the mistress ( 記小三 ) · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
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A Yixing clay teapot on display at Wuxi Museum, photographed in April 2013.猫猫的日记本 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
