Destination: China
Photo You Must See: The Thin Yellow Line in Chongqing
by World Hum | 11.19.09 | 4:29 PM ET
REUTERS/Stringer Shanghai Yellow cabs line a viaduct in Chongqing, China, while waiting to get their tanks filled during a shortage.
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Yahoo! BuzzPhoto You Must See: Snow-Frosted Forbidden City
by World Hum | 11.18.09 | 11:54 AM ET
REUTERS/Jason Lee A snowy scene in Beijing’s Forbidden City, photographed several days ago.
World Travel Watch: Protests in Nepal, Tensions in Nicaragua and More
by Larry Habegger | 11.05.09 | 7:47 AM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
Photo You Must See: 32 Meters of Mao
by World Hum | 11.04.09 | 11:34 AM ET
REUTERS/China Daily A 32-meter (or 105-foot) statue of a youthful Chairman Mao is under construction in Hunan province, China.
Photo You Must See: Wedding on the Great Wall
by World Hum | 10.19.09 | 1:07 PM ET
REUTERS/David Gray Actually, we’re not sure there was a wedding—but at the very least, a woman in a bridal gown poses for photos on a section of the Great Wall of China.
Fallows: ‘How I Survived China’
by Michael Yessis | 10.19.09 | 9:58 AM ET
The Atlantic’s former China correspondent reflects on the health issues he faced as an expat amid the “ochre skies and suspect sanitation of China.” The air quality there can be so bad, one doctor told Fallows, “I encourage people with children not to consider extended tours in China. Those little lungs.”
What will future air quality be like in China? In Beijing, at least, it’s already improving.
Photo You Must See: Ice Restaurant in China
by World Hum | 10.15.09 | 11:24 AM ET
REUTERS/China Daily Diners sit at a table in an ice restaurant in Harbin, in north east China. The temperature in the restaurant is about 25 degrees.
Photo You Must See: A Forbidden View in Beijing
by World Hum | 10.13.09 | 11:25 AM ET
REUTERS/David Gray Tourists look south over the Forbidden City from Beijing’s Jingshan Park.
Photo You Must See: Flying Before the Shanghai Sun
by World Hum | 10.07.09 | 11:52 AM ET
REUTERS/Aly Song A passenger jet cruises past the setting sun in Shanghai yesterday.
Video You Must See: China’s 60th Anniversary
by Michael Yessis | 10.05.09 | 2:31 PM ET
Jan Wong: Looking Back at China’s Darker Days
by Eva Holland | 10.02.09 | 5:26 PM ET
In a powerful column, Jan Wong, the author of Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now looks back on her complicated love affair with China—from studying abroad in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution to covering the Tiananmen Square massacre from a hotel room uncomfortably nearby. As the country celebrates its 60th anniversary this week, it’s good to see some thoughtful reflection on the dark times in China’s past, too. (Via @DougSaunders)
China Closes Tibet to Foreign Travelers
by Jim Benning | 09.23.09 | 2:25 PM ET
Why, you ask?
According to the AP, the closure is designed to ensure stability during celebrations of the 60th anniversary of communist rule in China, which will be marked Oct. 1. The closure will remain in effect through Oct. 8.
Officials have also curtailed kite flying in Beijing.
Critics will shake their heads, but I can think of no better way to celebrate authoritarian rule. Nicely done, China.
China: 60 Years of the People’s Republic
by Eva Holland | 09.21.09 | 1:33 PM ET
The People’s Republic of China will celebrate its sixtieth anniversary on October 1. The Big Picture has yet another stellar photo essay of the elaborate preparations for the big day.
Americans Fight Tourist Kitsch in China
by Michael Yessis | 09.09.09 | 11:00 AM ET
In China, “‘ancient’ villages are being redeveloped in a kitschy, gift-shop-heavy way,” James Fallows writes in the Atlantic. Americans Brian and Jeanee Linden are fighting the trend. They’ve “worked with party officials to secure something rarely accorded foreigners: the right to use a ‘Class A’ historical relic and restore it—its tiling, wooden arches and fretwork, painted murals.”
Yunnan’s ‘Treats’
by Jeffrey Tayler | 09.03.09 | 10:27 AM ET
In one of Kunming's finest restaurants, Jeffrey Tayler samples the dragonfly larvae, bamboo bugs and grasshoppers
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