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Qingyang sits in the east of Gansu province, a region known locally as Longdong, where the Loess Plateau rises in rolling yellow hills cut by deep ravines. A Qingyang travel…

Alxa League sits in the far west of Inner Mongolia, where three great deserts meet in a silence broken only by wind. For travelers who have already ticked off Beijing…

At the southern edge of Hebei, where the North China Plain finally lifts into the Taihang range, Xingtai is the city that stands between the fields and the mountains. A…

An hour by high speed train from Beijing, Baoding is the Hebei city that history keeps bumping into. For centuries it was the seat of the Zhili governor, the official…

On the northeastern tip of Hainan, where the island begins to taper toward the open sea, sits Wenchang, a county level city that is equal parts rocket science and sleepy…

Most visitors to Hainan land in Haikou or Sanya and never venture to the northwest, where the island bends into a quieter, stranger shape. Danzhou sits on that curve, a…

Most foreign visitors to Sichuan fly into Chengdu and never look beyond the city limits. That is a mistake. A 30 minute high speed train ride north brings you to…

Liangshan is the part of Sichuan that the pandas-and-peppercorns travel brochures forget. Tucked in the south of the province, bordering Yunnan, it is a high, mountainous prefecture where the Yi…

Dehong is Yunnan at its most unexpected: a strip of tropical lowlands along the border with Myanmar, where palm trees replace pine, where the dominant culture is Dai (closely related…

When people picture Yunnan, they imagine the humid tropics of Xishuangbanna or the old streets of Lijiang. Zhaotong breaks that image completely. Tucked into the northeastern corner of the province,…