Attractions

The Mu Residence Lijiang is the former palace of the Mu clan, the Naxi chieftains who ruled this corner of Yunnan for twenty-two generations across roughly 470 years, and it…

The Banpo Museum Xi’an is the place to stand on a wooden walkway above a six-thousand-year-old village and look down at the round and square pit houses where one of…

The Jade Buddha Temple Shanghai is one of the few working monasteries inside a Chinese megacity where you can stand three meters from a two-meter-tall statue carved from a single…

Hangzhou is sold to the world as a lake city, and West Lake earns the praise, but the place that actually puts the old commercial and culinary Hangzhou under your…

If Suzhou is famous as the city of gardens, the place that actually lets you walk inside the old water-town texture the gardens were built to echo is Pingjiang Road…

Nanjing wears its history heavier than most Chinese cities, and the single best place to feel the weight of its imperial past is Zhonghua Gate Nanjing, the colossal southern gate…

Most visitors arrive in Guangzhou expecting dim sum and skyscrapers, and they get both, but the building that best explains how this southern trading city actually thinks is Chen Clan…

When people plan a trip around the Yangtze middle reaches, the obvious draws are the river and the famous towers, but the quiet gem that locals in Hubei actually treasure…

If you visit only one Buddhist site in China, make it the White Horse Temple (白马寺, Baima Si) on the eastern edge of Luoyang. Tradition holds that it is the…

Most theme parks recreate fantasy worlds. Millennium City Park in Kaifeng (清明上河园, Qingming Shanghe Yuan) does something rarer: it rebuilds a real moment in history. The park is a living…