Where the rivers change colour
The stone stairs at the tip of the peninsula, the customs house of 1891 and the working wharf below them.
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The museum built around what the reservoir took
The Three Gorges Museum opened in 2005 to hold the objects rescue archaeology lifted out of the valleys the new dam would drown.
The guild house of the migrants
The Qing hall where merchants from Huguang and Guangdong kept their gods, their business and their hold on the city.
The arhat hall behind the shops
A Song temple on Minzu Road that has been burned, smashed and rebuilt, and keeps its cliff of Buddhas through all of it.
Three minutes above the Yangtze
The 1987 cable car was built for commuters and is now a monument to a city that crossed its rivers on cables.
One tower over the Jialing
The bridge built on the line of an old gate, with a road on top, a metro below and a single tower in the river.
Eleven storeys on the cliff
How a gate in the Ming wall and a waterfall on the Bayu list became a stilted block of shops against the Jialing bank.
Two hundred steps between two cities
The stair that joined the trade of the lower city to the schools and barracks above it, and what the rebuilding kept.
The clock that measured Chongqing
From a timber tower raised in the war to the stone monument the city still sets its watches by, the square at Jiefangbei has been rebuilt twice.