The heavy-industry town of the Ming-Qing era — a dense cluster of private iron-smelting, casting, and textile workshops, the most famous civilian industrial antenna of medieval China powering ironware exports to Southeast Asia.

The heavy-industry town of the Ming-Qing era — a dense cluster of private iron-smelting, casting, and textile workshops, the most famous civilian industrial antenna of medieval China powering ironware exports to Southeast Asia.