Yunnan Garden Then and Now: A Guided Walk Through NTU Landmarks and Landscapes

Following the clues from the book Yunnan Garden, Then and Now: Revisiting the Story of Nantah, we will step into Yunnan Garden – a special place carrying the dual memories of Nanyang University and Nanyang Technological University (NTU). This event features two literary walks, each with a different focus: one takes you in search of Nanyang University’s old buildings and surviving traces of the past, while the other leads you to explore NTU’s new landmarks. Through walking and talking along the way, we hope to piece together, bit by bit, the trajectory of Yunnan Garden’s transformation from past to present.

In this literary walk, we turn our focus to the landmark buildings of the NTU era, taking a walk through this top university as it stands today. Interestingly, some of the sites – like Nantah Lake and the Yunnan Garden Waterfall – will overlap with the route of the first walk. But we’ll be viewing them from a different angle: how might the same body of water look different to today’s students compared to their seniors from decades ago? Following in the footsteps of writer Tung Ka Wei, bring your camera and pen as we capture the contours of these spaces and record the stories that belong to this era.