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From minus 30°C ice festivals in Harbin to the fiery Yingge dance in Chaoshan, Chinese New Year is celebrated in wildly different ways. This article explores ...
A high school teacher from Ohio stood on a Chengdu sidewalk at 11:20 p.m., surrounded by families, delivery riders and grandmothers feeding noodles to five-year-olds, and ...
Western commentary often calls China a police state. What do Americans actually see when they spend two weeks there? A look at the subway scanners, the ...
A slow afternoon at Heming Teahouse in Chengdu's People's Park reveals what a real 'third place' looks like in China — where a cup of tea ...
China pours roughly $7 trillion a year into factories, rails, power grids and housing. An American visitor's back-of-the-receipt arithmetic explains what that money buys, what it ...
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 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 Denver HVAC contractor and his 22-year-old daughter spent ten days in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Wuhan. What surprised them wasn't the scale — it was ...