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  • An American Photojournalist In Communist China
    CHINA: Portrait of a People author and photographer Tom Carter expounds on Chinese censorship, peasant riots and how insolvency helped inspire his new book in this first exclusive interview.
    Posted: 2007-08-24
    Category: Photography
  • Longji Titian, The Dragon's Backbone
    The rice terraces, with sloping grades reaching 50 degrees, have been sculpted by generations of farmers beginning in the Yuan dynasty to shape the hillsides into grand agricultural pyramids not unlike those found in Guatemala or Mexico.
    Posted: 2007-08-05
    Category: Destinations
  • One Word: Xiahe!
    Fortunately, lesser-traveled Gansu province in northwest China offers the cultural charm of Tibet without the crowds.
    Posted: 2007-08-05
    Category: Destinations
  • Scalding Sanya
    Reclusive sun worshipers take note: you will literally have the beach to yourselves!
    Posted: 2007-08-05
    Category: Destinations
  • Kashgar
    Muslim-dominated Xinjian in the distant northwest is at once China's most intriguing and intimidating travel destination.
    Posted: 2007-08-05
    Category: Destinations
  • Xishuangbanna Autonomous Prefecture
    From the concrete jungle of the provincial capital city of Kunming into the rain forests of Xishuangbanna, this writer bypassed the more popular route for the less-explored areas around the Burma perimeter.
    Posted: 2007-08-05
    Category: Destinations
  • Hong Kong: A Global Party
    A stroll around Tsim Sha Tsui reveals the entire human race in one square block radius.
    Posted: 2007-08-05
    Category: Destinations
  • Beware The Chinese Tour Group
    "We like to go where everybody goes," said one Chinese tourist when prompted to explain the disorder of collective travel.
    Posted: 2007-08-05
    Category: Travel Tips
  • Beware China's Racist Hotels
    What this restrictive policy translates into is a concerted effort to urge foreign travelers to stay at more expensive, government-designated hotels.
    Posted: 2007-08-05
    Category: Travel Tips
  • China's Craziest Youth Hostel
    At 5am a drunk Dutch girl falls into her bunk and passes out in nothing but her g-string.
    Posted: 2007-08-05
    Category: Humor
  • Hong Kong Is No Place For A Poor White Boy
    When a group of obviously disappointed white boys emerge from one venue exclaiming, “In Thailand they take off ALL their clothes,” the brown-skinned door girl in plastic go-go boots is quick to shout back, “Then go to Thailand!”
    Posted: 2007-08-05
    Category: Humor
  • Ever Heard Of Jiuzhaigou? Didn't Think So
    Drinking in the damp sweetness, the dense woods of the Nuorilang gully are suddenly pierced by the region’s star attraction: prismatic lakes ranging in size from small to dragon-sized pools and covering a color spectrum of ice blue to fall apple green.
    Posted: 2007-08-05
    Category: Outdoors
  • Yuanshangdu aka the Legendary Xanadu
    But the sheer desolation of Xanadu is exactly its attraction. Walking among 11th-century ruins mantled in dazzling whiteness, one is left completely alone to enjoy an untouched history and uncorrupted serenity that is otherwise not found in today’s China.
    Posted: 2007-08-05
    Category: Destinations
  • The Massive Muslim Markets of Xinjiang
    It’s quite a sight to see a Muslim lady shrouded in an hijab headscarf burrowing through hills of shimmering silk and other fine fabrics to further veil herself in.
    Posted: 2007-08-05
    Category: Destinations
  • Learn Kung Fu At China's Shaolin Temple
    These are the sons and daughters of Shaolin, young students who have given up secular life for a strict regimen and forsaken conventional curriculum for physical conditioning. At Shaolin Si, the sword is truly mightier than the pen.
    Posted: 2007-05-31
    Category: Martial Arts
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