Power on a Paper: The Passport in Chinese History
Before the small, biometric-chipped booklet we now clutch when crossing borders, travel credentials in ancient China took many forms—from tokens and …
Before the small, biometric-chipped booklet we now clutch when crossing borders, travel credentials in ancient China took many forms—from tokens and …
More than a hundred years ago, the Vietnamese stopped using a logographic script, with its characters borrowed from Chinese. But traces of the old la…
Shanxi province is home to a staggering number of temples and other cultural sites, yet many remain in disrepair despite being key to local tourism c…
Learn these essential Chinese “chengyu” to describe your unique vacation travel styles
As China seeks to attract more international tourists, the need for multilingual guides is on the rise
What’s it like to board a ten-thousand-ton ship and embark on a 4-day, 3-night cruise down the Yangtze, China’s largest river?
Journeying through the viral Shandong county netizens once dubbed the “center of the universe”
Between crowded tourist hotspots and boring small towns, young vacationers struggle to find a middle ground
Photographer Cai Shanhai captures life and leisure of southwest China’s “cave dwellers”
A journey through Inner Mongolia’s grassland reveals the enduring pulse of nomadic life
Historian Duan Zhiqiang explores road dangers and the emergent travel industry in China’s Ming and Qing eras