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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.
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.”
Baby Tower in Fujian Province. In 1878 French Jesuit missionary, Gabriel Palatre, collated documents from 13 provinces [14] and the Annales de la Sainte-Enfance (Annals of the Holy Childhood), also found evidence of infanticide in Shanxi and Sichuan.
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.
"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.
Each essay grapples with a different dimension of grave relocation and burial reform in China over the past three centuries: from the phenomenon of “baby towers” in the Lower Yangzi region of late imperial China, to the histories of death in the city of Shanghai, and finally to the history of grave relocation during the contemporary period ...
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. See also https://chinesedeathscape.supdigital.org/read/cradle-to-grave.
