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A Chinese banquet with a sting in the tail

A rare delicacy in rural Shanxi...

On a whirlwind tour of Shanxi province, Fiona Harper sits down to a Chinese banquet with a sting in the tail


Birdies over Beijing

From just one course in 1984, the total number of golf courses in China has grown to over 200 in 2008. After the Olympic Games take to the gold class golf courses of Beijing.


China Games

Pudong skyline

KAREN HALABI visits Shanghai and discovers the new modern face of 21st century China, where things are changing at a rapid pace.


Cities Of Sound

Sun Studios' shopfront, Memphis

Glenn A. Baker presents a Bakers' Dozen of cities worthy of cruising through, with all antennae twitching


Did UFOs visit China?

A 2,000 year-old bronze head, in the Sanxingdui Museum (above); The "yin-yang circle", at the Sanxingdui Museum (right)

Archaeologists have yet to determine the origin of the bizarre bronze artefacts in Sichuan's Sanxingdui Museum


Escaping Shanghai

A quiet canal in old Zhujiajiao, a 1,700 year old market town near Shanghai

Five quick getaways from the world's most dynamic city


Golf Kunming

Spring City Golf Course

The blossoming capital city of Yunnan, a province in southwest China, boasts a 2,400-year history. The development of golf is far more recent, with Kunming hosting some of the finest courses in Asia.

 


Guizhou Grandeur

Tucked away in the mountainous hinterlands of south western China, unpolluted and relatively sparsely populated Guizhou Province is untrammelled by international tourism.


Hawaii of the Orient

A gushing waterfall in the lagoon pool at the Sanya Marriot Resort

Hainan is one of China’s fastest emerging holiday destinations.


Henan, Heart and Soul of China

White Horse Temple, Henan

Since the time of the Shang the Yellow River basin has nurtured one Chinese dynasty after another, their capitals rising and falling in turn.


Hong Kong – The Great Chinese Melting Pot

The vibrant and bustling seaport of Hong Kong has enjoyed a prominent part in the grand opera of Asia. Roderick Eime travelled to Hong Kong for a whirlwind tour of the sights, sounds and smells of the former British colony and discovered a bright and brassy city with a long and colourful history


In Shanxi, Loess is More

Hanging Monastery, Shanxi

The province "West of the Mountains" is a land of loess, the rugged dun-coloured country sandwiched between the Great Wall and the Yellow River.


Let The Games Begin!

This article details the lead-up to the games, where to stay in the city and other things to see and do before and after the Games.


Life in the Round

This story runs to around 1000 words and explains what goes on inside the world’s strangest houses, how to find them, and what else there is to see in the vicinity.


Playing Polo

This article details of the amazing Silk Road, its history and its fascinating route today and includes information on accommodation provided, local food and cuisine, things to do and see.


Shangri-La Rediscovered

Songzanlin Monastery

By the eager people's bureaucrats of South West China's remote Diqing Region, that is...


The Buddha is alive and well in Central China

Incense sticks at the Yungang Caves (above); A Shaolin monk demonstrates some nifty King Fu steps (right); the bodhisattva Kuan Yin stands in front of the Sakyamuni wooden pagoda (below)

In Henan and Shanxi provinces, China's rich Buddhist heritage is once more delighting and astonishing the world


The Hidden Macau

Coloane Island junk building yard, Macau (above); In the pits at the Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix starting line (right)

Startling contrasts in the former Portuguese enclave just across the water from Hong Kong in the Pearl River estuary - casinos, lavish hotels and Grand Prix excitement on one hand and languid, family-based villages with famous traditional junk building yards on the other.


Tigers leap where angels fear to tread...

On the Upper Track / Paper Tiger

...in Yunnan's Tiger Leaping Gorge


 

 
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