Town's museums offer a taste of history for everyone

Anren is an ideal place to wind down and enjoy Sichuan snacks, but it is also a great place to immerse yourself in China's recent history, write Raymond Zhou and Li Yu.

People visit museums to get a taste of history, and they hang out at old towns to be immersed in history. Since the functions of these two kinds of places overlap somewhat, why not put one inside the other?

That is exactly the idea for Anren, a small town about an hour's drive to the west of downtown Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province.