Qualla: Dunedin Chinese Garden https://qualla.com/dunedin-chinese-garden en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/p/z/c/5/dunedin-chinese-garden-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Dunedin Chinese Garden https://qualla.com/dunedin-chinese-garden Dunedin Chinese Garden: Introduction https://qualla.com/dunedin-chinese-garden/ Photo credit Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Not a single nail holds it together. Every beam, every column, every lattice panel in Lan Yuan -- the Dunedin Chinese Garden -- is joined by mortise and tenon, the same technique Chinese builders have used for centuries. The timber is Chinese fir, coated in seven layers of protective lacquer. The 380,000 roof tiles were made by hand. And all of it was first assembled in Shanghai, then dismantled, shipped across the Pacific, and reassembled in Dunedin by artisans who had built it the first time. It is an extraordinary act of cultural craftsmanship, tucked into a 2,500-square-metre site next to the city's railway station.

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/p/z/c/5/dunedin-chinese-garden-wp/pzc5-dunedin-chinese-garden-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dunedin Chinese Garden: Gold, Hardship, and Roots https://qualla.com/dunedin-chinese-garden/ Photo credit Pseudopanax at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Dunedin's Chinese community dates to the 1860s, when Cantonese miners arrived during the Otago gold rush -- barely fifteen years after the city itself was founded. They came to work the goldfields, endured discrimination and hardship, and stayed. Over the generations that followe...

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