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Baby Tower, also known as abandoned infant tower or baby girl tower, is an architectural structure in Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places in ancient China."A 'Baby Tower', Ningbo". Usually it is a small tower-shaped building made of bricks and stones.
"Gek Siong Sang 'Baby Tower'" "Foochow -- The Baby Tower, where formerly unwanted girl babies were thrown when born, but is now used for dead babies of either sex." [now Fuzhou] A small structure on a hill, and many others of varying designs are nearby.
Due to their link with infanticide, baby towers would forever be connected in many people’s minds with reproduction and its control, rather than with Chinese burial customs. This essay is an attempt to situate baby towers within the broader context of infant burial practices in late imperial China. Figure 4. “A Baby Tower.”
The Baby Tower, also known as the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre, is a skyscraper located in Guangzhou, China. Standing at a height of 1,739 feet, it is currently the tallest building in the city and the seventh-tallest in the world.
Buddhist nunneries created "baby towers" for people to leave a child. In 1845, in the province of Jiangxi, a missionary wrote that these children survived for up to two days while exposed to the elements and that those passing by would ignore the screaming child.
Unwanted babies, or the bodies of dead babies whose parents were too poor to bury the deceased baby, could be abandoned at a ‘baby tower’. See Mx01-138 and Mx04-065.
Jun 25, 2022 · I walked around & on one side saw an oblong hold, eighteen inches by eight, perhaps from which hung a stout string. From the hole there came a very strange, nauseating odour. Suddenly I understood what the queer little building was. It was a baby tower.
