China’s Misguided War Against Sparrows
These panel of images from the late 1950s China, depicting young boys hunting sparrows for sport, were taken from a poster aimed at school ...
These panel of images from the late 1950s China, depicting young boys hunting sparrows for sport, were taken from a poster aimed at school ...
This mouth-watering chunk of stewed pork belly with a gratuitous layer of fat and glistening sheen is actually a piece of rock—jasper to be ...
Believe it or not, this grotesque figure is considered to be one of the world’s best preserved mummies. While her face looks swollen and de...
One of the entrance to the Underground City in Beijing. Photo credit: Scott Sherrill-Mix/Flickr In the late 1950s, relation between the tw...
The world’s longest sea crossing connecting Hong Kong with Macau and Zhuhai opened this week in China. The unusual bridge cum tunnel system ...
In the far eastern edge of the desolate Taklamakan Desert, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest settlement, a clump of dense wooden stake...
Since the past few years, the Chinese government has been planting thousands of trees in cities across the country hoping to create an urban...
In a country where new buildings rise up every single day, it’s a challenge for architects to come up with original designs that stand out a...
For over four years, photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze has been training his lens on the rooftops of Hong Kong’s skyscrapers, in particul...
Over the last few years, the bicycle-sharing phenomenon has taken the world by storm, especially in China, where—according to one report —th...
In the mountains of the Shanxi province in China, is the country’s biggest ice cave—an 85-meter deep bowling pin shaped subterranean structu...
About 30 kilometers to the west of the modern city of Yinchuan, lies the enormous burial complex of the Western Xia dynasty. Spread over 40 ...
The city of Macau in Southern China might be best known for its casinos and luxury hotels, but its most treasured icon is actually a church,...
In the Freita mountain range in northern Portugal, close to a village called Castanheira, is a huge block of granite that periodically eject...
For more than four thousand years, on the Loess Plateau in northern China, people have been residing in caves known as yaodong, which is Chi...
Soil is typically brown, but when mixed with the right minerals in right quantities, it can yield a fascinating range of colors. You can see...
These two photographs of the Eiffel Tower look very similar, but they aren’t the same, which you can probably tell from their different surr...
In the sheltered coastal waters of the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, there are large fish farms whe...
In 1992, a strangely curious man named Wu Anai, near the Chinese village of Shiyan Beicun in Longyou County, based on a hunch, began to pump...
A new financial quarter is being built near the waterfront of Shanghai's old town. Designed by British architectural firms, Foster + Par...