Category: China
Tainan (pop. 660,000), the “City of A Hundred Temples” (at present more Tainan than 200!) is the oldest town in Taiwan. Its history-from 1684 to 1887 it was the …
The tomb site, measuring about 40sq.km/25sq. miles lies in a valley of the Tianshoushan hill, almost 50km/31 miles to the north of Beijing. It is the “monumental graveyard” ofthe …
Province: Shandong Altitude: 77m/252ft. Area: 244sq.km/94sq. miles Population: 1,180,000 (conurbation 6,410,000) Qingdao is situated on the Yellow Sea, in the east of Shandong province, at 120°14’E and 36°06’N. There …
Years ago I was returning home in a taxi and suddenly we came to a halt. I heard whistles and other noise. The police had stopped traffic, protecting the …
This pagoda, 54m/177ft high and of eleven storeys, stands in a northern suburb of Yinchuan and so is also known locally as the Northern Pagoda (Bei Ta). It was …
A number of political measures were taken, including the centralisation of administration – later to become a bureaucratic apparatus hostile to progress-the separation of military and political power, the …
Yichang is situated in the west of Hubei province, at the end ofthe third and last gorge ofthe Changjiang (Yangtse) river, at 111°12’E and 30°38’N. There are ships, trains …
This temple complex – 10km/6 miles north of the village of Fufeng, which itself is some 100km/60 miles west of Xi’an – is famous for its pagoda, in which …