Most visitors see Shaolin Temple and get back on the bus. But the valley around Dengfeng holds eight UNESCO sites built over 2,000 years to mark ...
A 1,300-year-old irrigation system in Yunnan still runs on gravity, carved wooden planks and village rules — and on one man walking the ditch before sunrise. ...
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 ...
A seven-tier granite pyramid stands in a cornfield outside Ji'an, a small city on China's border with North Korea. It is about 1,500 years old, and ...
On a limestone cliff above the Zuo River in southwest Guangxi, close to 1,900 red figures have been squatting in the same pose for two thousand ...
Nine towers of packed earth rise out of the desert near Yinchuan, China. They are called the Oriental Pyramids — but the people who built them ...
A rock pillar split in two, two temples on top, and a single-lane staircase cut into the cliff. Here is what the final hundred metres of ...
Lijiang Old Town draws millions of visitors a year, and plenty of them leave disappointed. A Naxi resident who still lives inside the walls walks us ...
Most visitors see the Longmen Grottoes in daylight and leave with flat grey photographs. Come back after dark, walk the west bank of the Yi River ...
Hongcun looks like a painting, but roughly a thousand people actually live inside it. Here is what the UNESCO-listed village is like before the tour buses ...