An hour southwest of Tiananmen Square, a limestone ridge holds the fossils that gave Asia its first early human — and a name that every Chinese ...
A giant panda spends 10 to 16 hours a day eating and swallows up to 38 kilograms of bamboo. The reason is not laziness but a ...
Shennongjia has spent fifty years, a hundred-strong scientific expedition and hundreds of camera traps chasing the Yeren. The forest it ended up protecting — and the ...
At 5:40 a.m. on a seawall in Jiangsu, the mudflats in front of you are not empty — they are covered in birds. A first-hand guide ...
Mogao has 735 caves and a daily cap of 6,000 visitors in peak season. Here is where that number comes from, how the ticket tiers actually ...
Chengde Mountain Resort, the Qing emperors' summer escape, is now a giant public park where Chinese families picnic, boat, and relax. Here's how to enjoy it ...
There are no roads inside the Badain Jaran Desert in western Inner Mongolia — only 460-metre dunes, a hundred-odd lakes sitting between them, and drivers who ...
The Terracotta Army is the trailer. The real story is a 56-square-kilometre necropolis, a mercury anomaly in the soil, and a burial chamber China has decided ...
Half an hour outside the coal city of Datong, a kilometre of sandstone cliff holds 51,000 Buddhist figures — many with wavy hair, straight noses and ...
A local's guide to experiencing Beijing's Summer Palace without the tourist hordes—by taking to the water, walking the quiet west shore, and finding the spots where ...