China’s Guangxi region isn’t known for its shopping or its bustling cities. Instead, you’ll find idyllic countryside, the best of which is Yangshuo county. Better still, it’s totally underrated in ...

SHANGHAI TO YANGSHUO — Saturday, Oct. 15 — Thanks to Zheng Zheng Ming, a.k.a. “Jimmy” to any foreigners he meets, I’ve added a few more words to my growing Chinese vocabulary. Jimmy, 72, of Shanghai ...

Over the centuries, this landscape has attracted numerous travellers including some of the leading literary figures of ancient China. Traditionally, a typical travel itinerary would include a boat ...

Once in a while, city dwellers long to escape from life’s hustle and bustle, traffic jams and pollution. If there is only one place where city folks have time for, visit Yangshuo, a small rustic city ...

Somewhere between the strange green and gray limestone peaks jutting out of the plains like misplaced teeth, past the village of 200-year-old yellowing huts, along narrow earthen paths raised between ...

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My first memories of China as a small child were of rice-paper scrolls hanging on the wall in my local library. Two fire-breathing dragons flanked some bizarrely shaped mountains that looked like ...

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