Quzhou Travel Guide: Zhejiang’s Confucius South Homeland
In the winter of 1128 a man named Kong Duanyou fled south with the collapsing Song court, carrying his family’s most precious possession: a portrait of his ancestor, Confucius, painted…
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Jinhua Travel Guide: Zhejiang’s Wuzhou Ancient City
Lie flat on your back on a plank boat, hands folded on your chest, and a boatman hauls you on a rope through a gap in the rock with maybe…
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Taizhou Travel Guide: Zhejiang’s Green Mountains and Sea
On a wet April morning at Guoqing Temple the only sounds are water running off camphor leaves and an elderly monk sweeping the same three metres of flagstone he has…
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Hukou Waterfall Guide: The Yellow River’s Thundering Falls
You hear it before the road turns. A low, chest-level rumble that you feel in your sternum, and then the loess plateau simply opens and the Yellow River — three…
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Dianchi Lake Guide: Kunming’s Highland Lake and Western Hills
Stand on the Dragon Gate ledge on a clear December morning and Dianchi stops looking like a lake at all. It becomes a sheet of hammered tin, roughly 300 square…
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Eating in China on a Budget: Cheap Eats Under $5
A man in a stained white cap pulls a rope of dough into sixteen strands in under twenty seconds, drops them into a cauldron, fishes them out ninety seconds later…
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Yunnan Crossing-the-Bridge Noodles Guide
The bowl arrives and it is enormous, and it appears to contain nothing but soup. No steam rises off it, which is the first trap. Around it the waiter sets…
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Linyi Travel Guide: Shandong’s Mountains and Rediscovery of Confucius
The Yi River runs through the middle of this city almost a kilometre wide, and on a summer evening the entire population seems to be walking along it — grandmothers…
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Zibo Travel Guide: Shandong’s Barbecue Boom and Qi Heritage
At half past six on a warm evening the whole street starts to smoke at once. Every table has its own small charcoal grill sunk into the middle, and on…
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Zhenjiang Travel Guide: Jiangsu’s Vinegar City and River Hill
Climb the steps of Beigu Mountain at seven in the morning and the Yangtze below you is a sheet of grey tin, barges sliding downstream in single file, the pavilion…
