Attractions

On the northern Loess Plateau, a few kilometers from the Yellow River where Shaanxi meets Shanxi across the water, a walled village has stood largely unchanged for four centuries. Dangjia…

In the rolling farmland of Lanxi, a county-level city administered by Jinhua in central Zhejiang, a walled village spreads across the plain in a pattern you will not find on…

Fifteen kilometers west of Suzhou’s classical gardens, where the canal country gives way to the low hills that fence the shore of Taihu, Tianping Mountain Suzhou rises a modest 201…

About 22 kilometers northeast of Nanjing’s Confucius Temple quarter, where the city thins into farmland and the Yangtze bends eastward, a wooded hill rises barely 280 meters above the plain….

Forty minutes southwest of Nanjing’s city center, two low peaks rise side by side like the horns of an ox — which is exactly how Niushou Mountain Nanjing earned its…

Lakes are where China shows off I’ve hauled a camera across this country for years, and the landscapes that keep me reaching for it are the lakes. Most visitors name…

Soaking is a national habit, not a luxury The first time I went to a Chinese hot spring I expected a spa. What I got was a weekend institution. Families,…

Autumn is short, and so is the window Chinese autumn is a sprint. The color peaks for maybe two or three weeks in any one place, and then the leaves…

The China most visitors miss Ask anyone to name a Chinese UNESCO site and you’ll hear the same three answers: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Terracotta Army. Deserved,…

Why I keep riding China’s cable cars Some travelers treat a cable car as a cop-out, the lazy way up when you should be on your feet. I used to…