The Blue Mansion, aka Cheong Fatt Tze mansion, is one of Penang’s foremost restoration project that has won the National Architecture award for conservation in 1995 and the UNESCO conservation award in 2000. This boutique hotel cum museum once belonged to a self-made Mandarin called Cheong Fatt Tze who arrived in Nanyang with little more than the clothes on his back at the age of 16 but rose swiftly to become one of China’s richest and most powerful men, dubbed by the West as the "Rockefeller of the East".
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