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Former Residence of Tan Sitong 谭嗣同故居Tán Sìtóng Gùjū
National heritage site · Changsha, Hunan
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Changsha
- Region
- Hunan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Former Residence of Tan Sitong
The family home in central Liuyang of Tan Sitong (1865–1898), the reformer and thinker who was executed at 33 with five others when the Hundred Days' Reform failed in 1898. It is a timber-framed courtyard house of 24 rooms behind fire walls, in the Jiangnan style, and since 2013 the national listing has also covered his tomb and memorial shrine elsewhere in Liuyang.
How to get to Former Residence of Tan Sitong
On Beizheng Street in central Liuyang, about an hour by road east of Changsha and a few minutes' walk from the Confucius temple. Closed on Mondays except public holidays.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Liuyang Confucius Temple 浏阳文庙 (under 10 km).
On the map
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