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What's Left of the Three Gorges
For all that the hand-wringing over China’s biggest masonry project since the Great Wall has been well-intended, it is also largely hypocritical posturing.
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Tulous and True Beauty
Built to last, and to serve, but not for beauty. Besides, if you’re trying to be beautiful, you’re better off straining to be natural.
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Five Grassland Getaways
There are realists, and there are dreamers. When it comes to national holidays in China, such as the week-long one starting tomorrow, realists outweigh dreamers by nine to one.
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Ngawa - Classically Un-Chinese
To learn that Ngawa’s full name is “Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture” is to begin to learn how deep, diverse, and paradoxical China gets, for those who trouble to scratch the surface.
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China Travel: Henan ‘77
Who are we to deny the dictatorship of the proletariat – reactionaries or something?
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On the Way to Lhasa
Scorning Tuotuo is like scorning an old minority woman struggling to make ends meet.
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Tengchong - South Yunnan
After the Wall and the terra cotta and the karst, you’ll arrive at the realization that travel in China takes it out of you, no matter how culturally rich the destination.
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Taishan, or What's Left of It
Hainan is a long bus-ride from Taishan, and at least there you can get some decent sushi for dinner after beaching about all day.
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Water Country
How great the pleasure, how boundless the pride, that must have fired ancient Chinese hearts in spanning the network at every stretch with a bridge.
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The Five Rarities, and Dongbei's Forest
Man is not at his best sunning on a rock, but rather facing an environment which challenges him, body and soul.
