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Former Mengzi Customs House and Southwest Associated University Memorial 蒙自海关旧址Méngzì Hǎiguān Jiùzhǐ

4A scenic area · National heritage site · Honghe, Yunnan

Former Mengzi Customs House and Southwest Associated University Memorial (蒙自海关旧址)
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0
Time needed
1–2 hours
Days to budget
Half a day
City
Honghe
Region
Yunnan
Type
Heritage
Listed as
4A scenic area, National heritage site

About Former Mengzi Customs House and Southwest Associated University Memorial

Mengzi was opened as a treaty port after the Sino-French War, and its customs house, set up in 1889, was the first in Yunnan. Around South Lake survive the customs office, the French consulate of 1888, a French prison, the 'French Garden' and the French-style building of the Gelusi trading house, a firm set up by a Greek merchant in 1906. In 1938 the arts and law faculties of the wartime National Southwest Associated University taught here for several months, recalled by a memorial hall.

How to get to Former Mengzi Customs House and Southwest Associated University Memorial

Beside South Lake (Nanhu) in central Mengzi, within walking distance of the old town.

Nearby

Also within 20 km: Zhou Family Mansion (Wangyun Museum) 周家宅院 (under 10 km), Yuhuang Pavilion, Mengzi 蒙自玉皇阁 (under 10 km), Xin'ansuo Old Buildings 新安所古建筑群 (under 10 km), Bisezhai Railway Station 碧色寨 (10 km).

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