Two trains, one night in Lanzhou, roughly 23 hours: a practical guide to riding China's high-speed rail from Shanghai to the Dunhuang dunes — what it ...
A single day in Caoyang New Village, a 1950s workers' estate in northwest Shanghai, where a park fills up before sunrise, an 18-yuan canteen serves construction ...
Many visitors arrive in China braced for unfriendly strangers. Then someone lifts their suitcase, types a price into a calculator, or waits with them until the ...
The Great Wall was never the point. After eleven months of sleeper trains, factory towns, county-city livestreams and village football, here are the ten Chinas I ...
A delivery drone drops noodles outside a Shenzhen office park in twelve minutes. Eighteen hundred kilometers away in Gansu, a herder uses a small drone to ...
A 638-yuan hard-sleeper ticket buys forty hours and 4,000 kilometers across China — from container ports and rice paddies to the Gobi and the Tianshan. What ...
A 34-year-old from Ohio lands in Asia for the first time and rides a loop through four Chinese cities — Shanghai, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan — by ...
A 600-year-old gate that once kept ordinary people out is now a place millions of people walk through. A morning at Tiananmen Square, seen from inside ...
A two-hour walk in Nanjing that starts with joggers at Xuanwu Gate, climbs 600-year-old bricks stamped with their makers' names, and ends in incense smoke at ...
In the northwest suburbs of Hefei, a low grassy ridge is all that's left of Hefei New City, a fortress built in the early 230s CE. ...