New York now has more Chinese people than any city outside of Asia. This photo essay explores Chinese life in the Big Apple, its three Chinatowns, and its connection to the city of Fuzhou.
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James Fallows discusses the impact tourism has had on Lijiang and shares a story on Xizhou - possibly the next Lijiang to suffer from too much tourism development.
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Online travel guides to Chinese cities are generally bad, either too cursory or written in barely readable Chinglish. This guide is different: it's well written, thoroughly researched and, I think, contains enough to keep you busy for quite a long stay in China's Venice.
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On the morning of July 22, a solar eclipse will darken skies over a large swathe of Asia. The eclipse’s umbra – an area of almost complete darkness, where the sun, moon and earth’s surface are perfectly aligned – will pass over north-east India, China’s middle and Japan’s Pacific Ocean islands.
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Josh Summers' Far West China blog has been blocked on and off for months. ChinaTravel.net is pleased to be able to publish Josh's report on his exploring Xinjiang by motorcycle this fall.
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Glen gives a summary of 10 spots in China worth a visit that are off the well-worn tourist route. A great list that I'm already sourcing out travel plans to!
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Classic tale of the wonderful randomness in China. A nervous encounter with a group of Chinese officials and their Pumi interpreter during the SARS epidemic turns into a drinking session punctuated by Communist drinking songs and Flaming Lips covers.
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This picture is amazing from both an artistic standpoint, and as a document of the rapid development taking place in a corner of China most foreigners, and a whole lot of Chinese, don't pay much attention to. All in favor of a Hao Hao trip to Xinjiang?
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With Chengdu being a city of eight million (and counting), it’s important to find a few spots of solitude to balance out the sometimes hectic pace of life in this rapidly expanding provincial capital.
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Megan Eaves visits Quzhou, a small city in Zhejiang, and seems to really like it. The city has beautiful Huizhou architecture, a lake and one of the two ancestral Confucian temples in the world.
read more »They deface Taiwan's scenic rock formations. They spit in public, cut in line and talk too loud.
And to top it off, some even take shelter from the rain — and smoke cigarettes! — inside one of Taiwan's "sacred trees."
A year after the island threw open its doors to Chinese tourist groups, Taiwan has a long list of complaints.
read more »One of my biggest peeves about airports is the lack of facilities available for those stuck on long stopovers on long-haul flights. I've visited many a country ONLY on stopovers. Imagine people's only impression of your country being that hideous 10-hour stopover, midway between a 19-hour flight.
read more »When you live in a big city, you need to have your own special spot that always makes you happy and gives you peace. Mine is my secret garden in the center of the French Concession.
read more »A Peace Corps volunteer posted to Anshun, in Guizhou, reflects on his time there - with a short guide for anybody who might plan to visit.
read more »The last time I asked friends to recommend which water town near Shanghai was the best one to visit, I got very mixed reviews. It seems that everyone has their favorite one...These were the nine different responses I got (okay, it was Facebook, the source of all reliable information) for the following question:
read more »CTn's managing editor, David Perry, just got back from visiting Yangshuo last week. He took some fantastic shots and is presently writing a feature story about his trip, so stay tuned for that. In the meantime, here is a teaser of what is to come, just to get you all excited and ready for it. Enjoy!
read more »Jalal looks at the ups and downs of train travel in China while sharing the pains of a recent trip down Chinese rails.
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A picture from the Shanghai city museum of a massive model of the metropolis (couldn't resist the alliteration). Wont be much of a surprise to tourists or residents of Shanghai, who've likely seen the model, but man, is it big!
read more »How real are Beijing's very famous and supposedly very old 'sites'?
read more »Great article about a slightly atypical Great Wall of Experience. I love the confidence and the honesty of the author as he relates the frustrations of dealing with things in China and the random joys that can be found while traveling.
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