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Kuling – ‘Cwm Nant’

Modern day Wuhan is known as one of the ‘three furnaces of China’ because of its intense heat. When Griffith John was living in Hankou temperatures in the summer could regularly reach 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Hankou was also very humid which meant that disease could spread quickly.

In the 1890s the mission in Hankou developed a summer retreat at Kuling in the Lushan mountains. People went there to escape the heat and recuperate after illness. Griffith John built a bungalow at Kuling which he named ‘Cwmnant’ after his grandfather’s farm in Gower.

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