A restored diaolou, a multistory watchtower-style residential building, in the city. [Photo provided to China Daily] Huang Junwei, owner of a diaolou, a multistory watchtower-style residential ...

My ancestral home is right next to a diaolou, a multi-storey watchtower whose architecture fuses 19th- and 20th-century Chinese and Western architectural styles. The four-storey diaolou helped ...

Their proposal “Accurate Protection and Activate Innovation proposals for Kaiping Diaolou and Villages — Protection of Cultural Heritage by Science and Technology” was awarded the “Best Proposal in ...

Famed UNESCO World Heritage sites now, I first glimpsed these distinctive Diaolou towers in 1988 with my parents, who had left three decades earlier. Back then, my father's small village had no ...

There is a group of abandoned granaries in Tangkou Town, Kaiping City, Jiangmen, the famous hometown of overseas Chinese and the location of the World Cultural Heritage Diaolou Group in Guangdong ...

Thanks to some basic genealogical information Keith provided, Deng and his team were able to locate the Chow family’s ancestral diaolou. Diaolou, simply put, are old, fortified concrete towers that ...

While the area’s reasonably well-preserved traditional villages are noteworthy, the real highlight is undoubtedly its diaolou, fortified concrete towers that can stand as tall as nine stories. Diaolou ...

The City of Kaiping is a well-known hometown of overseas Chinese, and IHRA recognized “Hometown of World-famous Chefs”.Its Diaolou and Villages are the only UNESCO-listed world heritage site in ...

Zili village, part of the UNESCO World Heritage of Kaiping Diaolou and Villages. [PHOTO BY YANG YANG/CHINA DAILY] At first, Li and Qian went to the villages to see diaolou, including the one used ...