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Xidi and Hongcun
Khuft Germany - 22-Dec-18
I visited Xidi and Hongcun in 2017, around the time of Chinese New Year. Both sites were thus very crowded - but on the plus side, most houses were decorated with red "chunlian" banderoles on each side of the door, which enhanced the experience in the otherwise very much black-and-white looking villages.
Both villages are the most representative villages of the traditional region of Huizhou (where the [...]
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Khuft Germany - 10-Jul-17
I visited Gulangyu (Kulangsu) in 2010, during a weekend trip to Xiamen (and the Fujian tulou), flying in from Hong Kong, where I was staying for a few months. In a sense, Gulangyu delivers what Hong Kong or Shanghai only promise: the fusion of West and East in a late 19th century / early 20th century international settlement established to trade with China. Gulangyu is surprisingly big and quite well-preserved (though when I visited in 2010, a few of the mansions were in the process of being "spruced up"). Its architecture has a distinctive Western flair to it, but Chinese elements also appear here and there (and it includes at least one fully-fledged Chinese garden)
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