Xiangtan

The village the pilgrims come to ↗

Shaoshan is the small hill county where Mao Zedong was born in 1893, a memorial landscape for over seventy years. The old village, the memorial complex and the living town around it are the three faces of a place turned shrine.

Dongshan Academy and the school town of Xiangxiang ↗

Dongshan Academy in Xiangxiang survives as a nationally protected site, and the city around it keeps one of Hunan's great school traditions. The academy, the students it raised and the site today are the three parts of a school line that never stopped.