China

How eccentric painter Zhang Daqian brought raw wilderness into one of China’s most carefully composed landscapes.

In China’s tropical deep south, Jinghong sits at the crossroads of Dai traditions, Mekong culture, and a rapidly modernizing nation.

In the historic quarter of Guandu, temples, music, and market squares reveal a gentler side of rapidly modernizing Kunming.

Nanjing’s city wall stands as a living relic of the Ming Empire, when the city ruled as one of the world’s greatest capitals.

How Traditional Chinese Medicine helps travelers restore harmony, ease jet lag, and connect more deeply with body, mind, and place.

Yunnan’s Nujiang Valley offers visitors incredible scenery, a colorful patchwork of minority cultures, and one of China’s most hair-raising river-crossing experiences.

An ancient tradition still practiced on the Li River in Yangshuo County, cormorant fishing offers a glimpse into South China’s vanishing cultural heritage.

Few routes are as drenched in charisma as the Silk Road. China’s portion of the legendary ancient trading route is home to some of the world’s most astounding Buddhist sites.

Kaili and its surroundings are the best spots to experience Guizhou’s tapestry of minority groups. Here are a few choice spots to immerse in the ethnic color of the southern province.

New property offers trademark opulence as well as easy access to the city’s alluring traditions.

Winter trekking in China’s Huangshan National Park can be gruelling, but the freezing weather conditions have the potential to produce plentiful visual manna.

The annual horse festival of Litang is a great opportunity to discover the Tibetan traditions that run deep in parts of Sichuan province. Photos by Kit Yeng Chan.