Guangzhou Lu Xun Memorial Hall

This guide to Guangzhou Lu Xun Memorial Hall stands on the site of China's imperial examination cells, cleared after the exams were abolished in 1905 for an odd hybrid building shaped like the character for mountain, with a five-story clock tower everyone still calls by that nickname. It follows the writer Lu Xun, who climbed to the tower's second floor in January 1927 for a post at Sun Yat-sen University, furnishing his room with little more than planks and a mosquito net. Look up at the clocks on all four sides before heading inside.