People's Republic of China
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Beijing is the capital of China and is listed as an urban entity in the geographic records consulted. The available information identifies its location but does not describe its neighborhoods, sights or current connections.
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Chikan is a historic town by the Tanjiang River, with commercial streets and qilou buildings featuring covered arcades. Its restored areas, cultural programming and visitor spaces provide an urban counterpoint to the rural diaolou villages.
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Kaiping, in Guangdong, brings together villages and diaolou towers associated with migration and rural life. Towers, homes, paths, water and farmland form a heritage landscape best understood by exploring more than one cluster.
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Liyuan is a historic garden associated with Kaiping’s emigrant community. Its ornamental landscape offers a different perspective from the defensive diaolou residences nearby.
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Majianglong is one of Kaiping’s four rural diaolou groups. Its residential towers, set among homes, ponds and fields, offer a dispersed, green perspective on the rural landscape of Guangdong.
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Ruishi Lou is a nine-storey diaolou in Jinjiangli, noted for its scale and for combining Greek-style columns with Lingnan grey decoration.
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Yinglong Lou in Sanmenli is a restrained defensive diaolou, described by the municipal administration as Kaiping’s oldest surviving example, more than four centuries old.
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Zilicun, also called Zili, is a village where diaolou towers stand among rice fields, ponds and homes. The setting reveals the links between architecture, defence and the productive landscape.
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