Tongwen Academy, Jiujiang 同文书院Tóngwén Shūyuàn

About Tongwen Academy, Jiujiang

Three listed buildings in the grounds of Jiujiang Tongwen Middle School, in the old part of Jiujiang: the Tongwen Academy building and the office and classroom buildings of the former Ruli Girls' School. The academy was founded in 1867 and the girls' school, set up by the Methodist Episcopal mission, in 1873; the two schools merged after 1949, and the school took back the Tongwen name in 2002. The buildings were listed as a National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit in 2013.

How to get to Tongwen Academy, Jiujiang

In Xunyang District, in the Yuliang South Road historic quarter of Jiujiang's old city centre. The buildings are inside a working school and no public opening is documented, so expect to see them from outside only.

Nearby

• Mount Lushan 庐山 20 km
  Misty peaks, waterfalls and a hill station of stone villas above the Yangtze

Also within 20 km: Dasheng Pagoda 大胜塔 (under 10 km), Former Mobil Oil Company Site, Jiujiang 美孚洋行旧址 (under 10 km), Suojianglou Pagoda 锁江楼塔 (under 10 km), Pipa Pavilion and Xunyang River Park 浔阳江琵琶亭 (under 10 km), Nanshan Park, Jiujiang 南山公园 (under 10 km), Saicheng Lake Scenic Area 赛城湖 (under 10 km).

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