How Salt Became a City
Trace the connections between Yangzhou’s canal, merchant houses, book collecting, and performance.
Yangzhou.
Canal commerce, seasonal stone landscapes, and the exacting work behind a bowl of tofu.
Canal wealth and skilled hands
A Year Made of Stone at Geyuan
Read Geyuan’s four seasons through contrasting rocks, bamboo, shadows, and the views between them.
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Fine Cuts: Tofu and Lacquer in Yangzhou
Understand Huaiyang knife work and Yangzhou lacquer through materials, trained hands, and the details worth noticing.
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China Grand Canal Museum
A place to connect Yangzhou’s streets to the larger history of inland waterways.
Salt Merchant Culture Exhibition Hall
A merchant residence gives the salt economy a domestic scale.
Geyuan Garden
Four seasonal landscapes composed through stone, plants, light, and movement.
Dongguan Street
An old commercial street where canal history meets food and everyday trade.
Slender West Lake
A waterside counterpart to Yangzhou’s enclosed gardens.
Photo credits and rights
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A lake view toward Yangzhou's Five-Pavilion Bridge and White Pagoda.Amarespeco · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
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The entrance to Yangzhou's China Grand Canal Museum, photographed in January 2022.Fool Piasar · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
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Rockery and water at Geyuan Garden, photographed in winter 2009.江上清风1961 · CC BY 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
