The 1930s lanes still standing, the family teahouse off the renovated street, the inn run by a calligrapher's daughter.
An old garrison town in southern Yunnan where the wells still work, the tofu is counted in corn kernels, and the courtyards are kept by the families who built them. CN: 建水的古井,和井边烤豆腐的人家
Beyond the reconstructed façades of Lu Xun's birthplace, Shaoxing keeps a quieter ledger — clay jars, slow water, and lanes that have not yet learned to perform. CN: 绍兴:酒坛多过游客的后巷水道