Travel Guide East Asia China

Your trip to China will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Make sure you make the most of it!
1. Getting grossed out
Come on now, you’ve heard the saying, “the Chinese eat every part of the pig but the oink”. Well, there may be a seed of truth to every legend, but consider that with over a billion [...]

If you can move your trip back to avoid the week-long holiday around China’s National Day, October 1st, then traveling in October can be one of the best months to visit. Autumn is really starting to get into full swing in central China and you’ll find cooling temperatures and mild, sunny weather. Fall foliage will [...]

The Moon festival (also called the Mooncake or Mid-Autumn festival) falls on October 3rd in the year 2009. What is the Moon festival? Every year on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when the moon is at its maximum brightness for the entire year, the Chinese celebrate “zhong qiu jie.” [...]

From the comfort of our home on a very rainy day in Shanghai, my family tuned in to the PRC’s National Day Parade. If you’ll recall, I thought it would be fun to take my family to Beijing to watch it live, but found out quickly that going to Beijing was out of the question. [...]

Overview:
Suzhou is a famous city throughout China for its gardens. Historically a wealthy city, due in part for its large silk industry, many of its residents built classical gardens that are preserved and open to the public today. Nine of the gardens are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Cultural Site list. Here’s a [...]

Overview:
Suzhou is a famous city throughout China for its gardens. In fact, a famous quote goes Shang you tiantang, xia you Suhang, which means “in heaven there is paradise, on earth there is Su[zhou] and Hang[zhou]. Historically a wealthy city, due in part for its large silk industry, many of its residents built classical [...]

I had the opportunity to attend a tasting of traditional Chinese tea, for a purchase of tea in a teahouse in Changzhou. Before purchasing, selling the kind we did enjoy the tea that they wished to buy: nothing better to convince the undecided customer!
The technique of tasting traditional Chinese tea, or Gong Fu Cha, is [...]

A new type of tickets begins today of the minutes of Chinese films … Wives and Concubines of Zhang Yimou is one of the first movies I saw highlights on China, a few years ago. Diving in Imperial China with a crucial question: what role for women in a traditional society centered around man?
North China, [...]

Lovers of cinema sinophiles or simply curious, I recommend two sources to deepen your knowledge on the cinemas of China.
- The number 17 of the Chinese World, Overview of Chinese cinemas
In this issue, the magazine – which I spoke to you there is little here – trying to give an overview on this topic yet [...]

A “Dangdang car”, the old-fashioned trolley car, runs on Qianmen Street, one of the old commercial areas of Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 3, 2009. The reopened Qianmen Street attracted a lot of tourists during the National Day holidays, which overlaps the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival this year.

Crowds of tourists visit the Qianmen Street, one of [...]