Six new sacrificial pits at Sanxingdui in Sichuan produced gold masks, bronze figures, silk residue and stacked ivory, with carbon dates placing them alongside the late ...
I'm a 34-year-old designer from Seoul. I flew to China for two weeks and five cities, carrying a mental map I'd had since school. Xi'an, the ...
A software engineer from Portland lands in Chengdu expecting rifles and checkpoints. What he finds instead is an unarmed traffic officer, a phone in one hand, ...
Chengdu is famous for pandas and spicy hot pot, but it's also becoming a serious technology hub in western China. This guide helps business travelers balance ...
A Chengdu teahouse, a performer, and four masks changed in under three seconds. Why Sichuan opera face-changing leaves foreign tourists thrilled, baffled, and reaching for their ...
In Chengdu, 'doing nothing' is not laziness—it’s a sophisticated lifestyle philosophy called 'An Yi.' After spending three days in a traditional bamboo-seat tea house, I realized ...
German tourist Lukas meets Zhe'ergen (fish mint) in Chengdu. What starts as a sensory shock becomes a lesson in regional identity, showing how extreme flavors define ...
Forget the high-speed rail and tech giants. In Chengdu, I spent three days mastering the art of doing absolutely nothing—sipping tea, listening to the clink of ...