A Midwestern Professor in China: Part 2
China, for me, remains a contrast between the old and new. With so much growth so fast -- it reminded me of Chicago 50 years ago, but on steroids.
China, for me, remains a contrast between the old and new. With so much growth so fast -- it reminded me of Chicago 50 years ago, but on steroids.
Posted 04.05.2012
The world's longest suspension bridge--Aizhai--opened in China on March 31. The bridge connects two cities--Chongqing Municipality to Changsha cit...
Jeremy Harris Lipschultz | Posted 04.08.2012
Since 2009, China has attempted to block dozens of sites that might harbor dissent. Recent visitors had told me to expect Internet restrictions. As a First Amendment researcher, I would see the access restrictions as a bit of a one-way street.
Necee Regis | Posted 05.27.2012
I didn't endure 14-and-a-half hours on a plane from Chicago to eat a fast food burger with fries, so I turned down a side street and wandered till I found an appropriate Chinese-y place to dine.
Richard Bangs | Posted 04.16.2012
There is a place whose people have been on a never-ending quest to achieve a concord between life's jagged puzzle pieces. And some believe they have found its secrets.
AP | By GILLIAN WONG | Posted 01.19.2012
BEIJING -- Desperate to return home for China's most important holiday, migrant worker Li Zhuqing lined up for six chilly days and nights at a train s...
Posted 03.05.2012
Every winter, Siberian winds bear down on Harbin, China, prompting the city's 10 million citizens to go outside for a party. The Harbin Internatio...
Posted 02.29.2012
With Chinese New Year just around the corner, workers from Beijing to Changsha are lining up in droves to purchase train tickets for peak travel seaso...
Mitch Moxley | Posted 02.08.2012
The court was covered with a layer of dirt, so you didn't so much run down the court as you did skate or ski. Players sometimes refreshed themselves between games with a cigarette.
Jim Calio | Posted 02.06.2012
There are kites shaped like butterflies, swallows, dragonflies and centipedes. There are kites that stretch all the way across the ceiling of the shop and kites that are so small they can fit into a regular size envelope.
Posted 12.02.2011
File this under super cool. First came the Angry Birds Theme Park. Now, for the second year in a row, a theme park made entirely from chocolate wi...
Mitch Moxley | Posted 01.16.2012
We shrug our shoulders and say one of the most important and infuriating phrases in the Chinese language: mei banfa.
Diya Luke | Posted 01.08.2012
Most international flights invite travelers with small children to board ahead of the masses, which begs a question: Why would I want to subject myself to an extra minute of whining and restlessness in cramped quarters?
Carole Mallory | Posted 01.07.2012
Hong Kong was a series of peaks and valleys. It had dramatically tall buildings juxtaposed against narrow streets. The harbor of Kowloon was just on the other side of the island and we went there for lunch on a sampan with Harry.
Mitch Moxley | Posted 01.02.2012
As Tall Rice, I've appeared in a movie, a humiliating music video, a commercial, a Peking Opera television special and, soon, a Chinese dating show. At home, I would have said no to all of it.
Posted 12.21.2011
Thanks to an underground network of mines, one of the world's most iconic sites is in danger. A section of the Great Wall of China has collapsed, repo...
Posted 12.10.2011
A Chinese couple has spent more than a decade cleaning up tourist litter at the Great Wall of China, working alongside each other to carry out the hun...
Richard Bangs | Posted 12.08.2011
The epic story of an eight-year correspondence and an even longer quest to raft China's Yangtze.
JustLuxe | Posted 11.30.2011
The building, the fourth tallest on earth, is half a kilometer tall. The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong occupies floors 102 through 118. Let's put it this way: The views aren't bad.
Posted 11.22.2011
French photographer Alain Delorme's series Totems features the acrobatic stacking feats of Shanghai's bikers. Delorme explains that the "cardboard...
Black Tomato | Posted 11.13.2011
Here are some events to intrigue and inspire for when the sky greys and the rain comes a-pitter-pattering.
Wallace J Nichols | Posted 11.09.2011
People can now volunteer with wildlife conservation projects while traveling or see and learn about wild animals in their natural habitat while supporting efforts to protect them.
Chris C. Anderson | Posted 11.09.2011
It's been 10 years, but replica World Trade Center Twin Towers still stand in a miniature version of Manhattan on display at Window of the World, a Ch...
Posted 11.07.2011
A theme park in China has opened an unlicensed “Angry Birds” attraction that offers visitors the chance to use a real slingshot to knock pigs off ...
Kerrin Sheldon | Posted 10.24.2011
Tiger Leaping Gorge is an impressive hike with dizzying drops and awesome switchbacks.
Jeremy Harris Lipschultz | Posted 04.08.2012