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After years of stagnation, the great metropolis of SHANGHAI is undergoing one of the fastest economic expansions the world has ever seen. The skyline is filling with skyscrapers; there are three ... Read more...
Nearly seven million people are crammed into the mere 1,100 square kilometers that make up the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR). Not just a city of skyscrapers, there is also lush ... Read more...
The brash modernity of BEIJING comes as a surprise to many visitors. Traversed by more than a hundred flyovers and spiked with high-rises, this vivid metropolis is China at its most dynamic. For a ... Read more...
It was not so long ago that GUANGZHOU, once known to the Western world as Canton, was dismissed as a nightmare caricature of Hong Kong, one of the most dizzyingly overcrowded, polluted and chaotic ... Read more...
A four-kilometre-long strip of the mainland ceded to Britain in perpetuity in 1860 to add to their offshore island, Kowloon was accordingly developed with gusto and confidence, not least in the ... Read more...
GUILIN has been famous since Tang times for its scenic location among a host of gnarled, two-hundred-metre-high rocky hills on the Li River, down which you can cruise to the village of Yangshuo. ... Read more...
SANYA is, sooner or later, the destination of every visitor to Hainan Island. What pulls in the crowds – an increasing number of whom are Russian and Korean – are Sanya's ... Read more...
Incredibly, in 1979 SHENZHEN was a simple rural hamlet and train station called Bao'an, the first office foundations yet to be dug in its alluvial plains on the Hong Kong border. Within six ... Read more...
One way or another, almost anyone travelling through central China has to pass through WUHAN, Hubei's sprawling capital. The name is a portmanteau label for the original settlements of Wuchang, ... Read more...
XIAMEN, traditionally known in the West as Amoy, is a surprisingly pretty city, its streets and buildings, attractive shopping arcades and bustling seafront boasting a nineteenth-century European ... Read more...