Lijiang Old Town draws millions of visitors a year, and plenty of them leave disappointed. A Naxi resident who still lives inside the walls walks us ...

Most visitors see the Longmen Grottoes in daylight and leave with flat grey photographs. Come back after dark, walk the west bank of the Yi River ...

Li Guohua, a 58-year-old farmer in Henan, expected to pay most of his 46,280-yuan hospital bill. After basic insurance and critical illness insurance, he paid only ...

Hongcun looks like a painting, but roughly a thousand people actually live inside it. Here is what the UNESCO-listed village is like before the tour buses ...

A street-level look at Chengdu's programmers — long hours, strong tea, and late-night hotpot — and what their daily rhythms say about a fast-growing tech city. ...

Rents are a tenth of Shanghai's. The kilns, the clay and the repair guys are all within a bike ride. Meet the 'Jing drifters' — the ...

In a Hotan classroom, Uyghur children switch effortlessly between Mandarin and Uyghur as they talk about their dreams. A firsthand look at bilingual education on the ...

Inside a quiet workshop in Xi’an, a restorer cleans a bronze fragment that has waited 2,000 years to be whole again. Meet the men and women ...

Villages, cattle, dogs and herb gatherers share the Giant Panda National Park with 1,864 wild pandas. A field report from the mountains of northern Sichuan on ...

Panda diplomacy is not only a photograph of a cute animal. Since 1984 it has been a legal and financial arrangement: ten-year loans, CITES permits, annual ...