Everyone queues for the same pine tree at the same hour of the morning. Here's how to see the real Yellow Mountain instead: where to sleep, ...
A stone town of 600 foreign-built villas sits at 1,164 meters on a mountain in Jiangxi, and a waterfall here was made famous by a poem ...
Two Ming dynasty brick towers in southeast Taiyuan are nicknamed the Twin Writing Brushes. Here is why a city built pagodas to improve its exam results, ...
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 ...
China has two surviving imperial palace complexes. Everyone knows Beijing's. Shenyang's is a twelfth of the size, built by Manchus who had not yet conquered China ...
Behind a stone gate at the foot of Yuelu Mountain, a school founded in 976 still runs seminars, awards degrees and competes with its own tour ...
Forget the Great Wall. In northern China’s Hebei province, a hidden volcanic route near Zhangjiakou offers landscapes so alien they look like Mars. Here is what ...