The Zhongshan Building
Whitewashed fifties shophouse, now an arts hub with studios, a record store, and a library.
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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.
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