China Travel - Archived

www.timeoutbeijing.com — If you're in the capital this weekend check out our guide to taking in temple fairs, wraping dumplings and enjoying New Year concerts, movies and fireworks.

blog.chinatravel.net — In 'Discovering China Abroad,' China Travel explores Sino-centric tourism in locations around the globe, examining the impact and influence of Chinese culture on the world-wide travel map. This latest installment is on San Francisco's booming Chinatown, home to one of the largest and most vibrant Chinese communities outside of Asia.

blog.chinatravel.net — A look at the gay scene in China for men, women, foreigners and locals alike. Discusses the gay bar scene in the more cosmopolitan cities, and the social repression and anxiety that still exists for homosexuals in China.

www.timeoutbeijing.com — There is something attractive about eating in a restaurant that’s owned by the granddaughter of Chairman Mao, especially one in the fashionable lower level of The Village North. This is the sister to another establishment in 798 that is more café than resto.

blog.chinatravel.net — The good and the bad of one traveler's experience heading south for a winter retreat. With the holidays approaching, it's time to start thinking about ways to avoid the crush of crowded trains and buses, and enjoy our time off to the fullest.

blog.chinatravel.net — A look at Jinhua Shan in Anhui Province. A discussion of its holy roots, the temples of today and what to do and see while you're there.

blog.chinatravel.net — Someone looking out the window over Jinghong, Yunnan, might be forgiven for thinking they were no longer in China. Lush, tropical vegetation and plantations of banana and rubber trees cover a jumbled landscape of mountains. Spired Theravada Buddhist temples stand amidst palm trees and rice paddies.

usa.chinadaily.com.cn — Xiamen was named the most civilized city in China, but its top planner hopes to see the city grow into the Miami of the Orient.

"Xiamen and Miami are at the same altitude, and I believe Xiamen has the potential to be a global tourist destination like Miami," Zhao Yanjing, chief of Xiamen City Plan Bureau, said at the city's 30th anniversary as a special economic zone (SEZ).

www.oldworldwandering.com — A portrait of the Chinese immigrants shaping Laos' sleepy capital: "A wave of Chinese immigrants had come to Vientiane in the years after the Taiping Rebellion...they had continued coming all through the first half of the twentieth century...now, after a fifty-years, Chinese people were again flocking to Laos...It was easy to imagine that the cultural divide between these two Chinese populations w

blog.chinatravel.net — A short summary of Dong history, with an emphasis on the impact of integration into a Han dominated China. Discussion of the changes undergoing the Dong people and the effects of tourism on their culture and their ethnic identity.