Cities of China
Guangzhou!
Guangzhou is worth a visit because it offers glimpses of not only China’s past and present, but its future as well.
Shanghai!
The story of Christianity in China and the story of Shanghai are inextricably linked.
Cities on the Silk Road
A look at the cities of the ancient Silk Road today—the cities of the "One Belt, One Road initiative.
Urbanization Visualized
We talk a lot about the massive urbanization that has taken place in China since the 1980s but what does it look like?
Urumqi!
I have been to Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region twice. The first time was in 1992; a teammate and I took the train. Back then it was a journey that took two days and three nights; today the fastest train makes the journey in 30 hours. On my second visit to Urumqi (in 2004) I also travelled by train, but from the southern Xinjiang city of Kashgar. That was a 24-hour run along the edge of the Taklimakan Desert.
Qingdao!
One of the striking things about the coastal city of Qingdao is the surviving European feel of much of the older sections of town. Qingdao was a German colony from 1898 to 1914, and unlike most other cities that had once been under colonial rule, the old European zone was not razed.