The Zhongshan Building

This guide to The Zhongshan Building in Kuala Lumpur follows one grandmother's slow purchase of a fifties shophouse, unit by unit, and the Selangor Zhongshan Association clan who once gathered inside it. It traces the building's years of decline, from a butchery to a hostel for foreign workers, and the grandson and his wife who inherited it generations later. An art-gallery owner and her business partner, backed by an urban-regeneration body, are the ones who took it on next.