Blue House
Grade I tenement cluster from the nineteen twenties, famous for its vivid blue walls and UNESCO-awarded community preservation.
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This guide to the Blue House in Hong Kong opens with the smell of tiger balm on its ground floor, where grandmaster Lam Cho ran a kung fu school and healing clinic after nineteen forty-five, tracing his lineage back to the legendary Wong Fei-hung through his uncle Lam Sai-wing. You'll hear how the nineteen twenty-two building got its color from a coat of blue paint in nineteen ninety, and follow the fight decades later when the Urban Renewal Authority proposed tearing the tenement down. The guide follows what the residents who had lived there for decades decided to do about it.
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