庐山牯岭
Kuling ("Guling") is a hill-station resort founded in 1895 by British missionary Edward Selby Little, who secured a 999-year lease over the valley from the Qing government. By the 1920s it had grown to more than 800 Western-style villas spanning over 20 national architectural styles — a landmark of East-West exchange still standing today.
牯岭是1895年由英国传教士李德立开发的避暑地，他从清政府手中获得该谷地999年的租约。至1920年代，牯岭已建成逾800栋涵盖20余国建筑风格的西式别墅，是至今仍屹立的中西交流地标。
The resort's most famous villa, "Meilu", later served as a residence for both Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, and hosted three Chinese Communist Party Central Committee "Lushan Conferences" between 1959 and 1970 — a striking continuity of the site's significance across radically different eras of Chinese history.
牯岭最著名的"美庐别墅"后来先后成为蒋介石与毛泽东的驻跸之所，1959至1970年间更三次承办中共中央庐山会议——这一场址的重要性贯穿了中国近现代史截然不同的几个阶段，延续性相当惊人。
Read the full biography of the man who founded this site, and later retired to New Zealand.
阅读这位开发此地、晚年归隐新西兰的传教士的完整传记。
Wikipedia, "Guling, Jiangxi"
Global Times, "Lushan Mountain keeping history alive"
