The 7.8-kilometer line UNESCO listed in 2024 isn't just palaces and altars. Walk it north to south before 9 a.m. and you pass through breakfast stalls, ...
In the mountains of Guizhou, Hunan and Hubei, hereditary chieftains called tusi ruled for centuries — confirmed by Beijing, but often beyond its reach. Three UNESCO-listed ...
An hour southwest of Tiananmen Square, a limestone ridge holds the fossils that gave Asia its first early human — and a name that every Chinese ...
Shennongjia has spent fifty years, a hundred-strong scientific expedition and hundreds of camera traps chasing the Yeren. The forest it ended up protecting — and the ...
There are no roads inside the Badain Jaran Desert in western Inner Mongolia — only 460-metre dunes, a hundred-odd lakes sitting between them, and drivers who ...
Half an hour outside the coal city of Datong, a kilometre of sandstone cliff holds 51,000 Buddhist figures — many with wavy hair, straight noses and ...
Most visitors see the Sacred Way and the excavated underground palace at Dingling, then leave. But the valley around them is farmland, orchards and thirteen villages ...
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 ...
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 ...