Pingyao's grey-brick lanes look like a film set, but they once held 22 of China's 51 draft banks — a paper-money network that moved silver across ...
Every summer, thousands of ordinary Chinese — office workers, retirees, students, shop owners — walk a 50-kilometer circuit over five mountain peaks in Shanxi Province. Here's ...
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, ...
Pingyao, a perfectly preserved Ming-Qing town in China's Shanxi province, welcomes millions of tourists each year. But behind the postcard views, a fragile economy runs on ...