Shenzhen Meridian View Centre Co.,Ltd.

This guide to the Shenzhen Meridian View Centre follows two wax figures on its sixty-ninth floor, Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher, and the 1984 handover deal they struck. It traces the tower's frantic 1990s construction, four floors every nine days, and the nickname Shenzhen gave the record-priced plot beneath it. You'll hear how briefly the tower held the title of Asia's tallest building before a Guangzhou rival overtook it. Best experienced by the window, looking south toward the border the deal fixed.