Kaiping Diaolou and Villages feature the Diaolou, multi-storeyed defensive village houses in Kaiping, which display a complex and flamboyant fusion of Chinese and Western structural and decorative ...
The towers — known as "diaolou" — were built to protect families when outlaws attacked small villages, according to Dr. Patrick Leung, chairman of the Confucius Church of Bakersfield ...