The Towers of Kaiping: the ‘Diaoliu’ villages in Guangdong, China

When:
March 21, 2018 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm
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Where:
Pitt Rivers Museum
S Parks Rd
Oxford OX1
UK
Cost:
£2 (Free fro Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum)
Contact:
Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum
01865 270927

Kirsty Norman, Principal Consultant at the Centre of Applied Archaeology, UCL, will talk about the hundreds of ‘Diaoliu’ in southern Guangdong, describing their history and future. ‘Diaoliu’ are flamboyant, western-influenced houses and towers built by émigrés in the 19th and early 20th centuries as protection against bandits. Four Diaoliu groups have been designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites.