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Dazu county lies just 80 km away from bustling Chongqing, but its Buddhist rock carvings and sculptures will take you back more than 800 years.
Wudang Mountains in Hubei province, known for their Taoist monasteries as well as spawning a martial arts style popular the world over, are worth days of exploration.
Mike Peters waxes lyrical about the pleasures of Lanzhou and southern Gansu as he stops to smell the flowers and discover a little piece of Switzerland in China.
The First International Bronze Drum Festival, in Donglan, highlighted the cultural importance of the instrument to the Zhuang and Yao ethnic groups. Liu Xiangrui reports.
Gansu's Dunhuang Grottos are an archaeological Aladdin's cave, Erik Nilsson says
Little Italy, once the heart of Italian-American life in the city, exists mostly as a memory. In 1950, nearly half of the more than 10,000 New Yorkers living in the heart of Little Italy identified as Italian-American.
Northwest China's Shanxi Province claims possession of rich cultural and historical heritage, having more than 70% of all ancient architecture in China built before the Liao and Song Dynasties.
For lovers of Chinese literature, the Du Fu Thatched Cottage Museum in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, is a must-see.
China has a long history of applying decorative paintings on buildings. Like the Long Corridor, most of the Chinese ancient buildings use timber as building materials. In fact, the paint used during decorative painting can protect the timber. Therefore, decorative painting has become an important enhancement in China’s architectural history.
Clockwise from top: The Commune villas are dispersed across the mountainside; an evening meal against an idyllic Great Wall scene, the living room of Bamboo Wall villa; guests enjoy a lunchtime meal; this stretch of the wall remains in its untouched form.
Fourteen groups from home and abroad will hold live concerts and shows across Shanghai as part of the 2011 World Music Shanghai festival, which runs from May 21 to 25.
The southern German region of Franconia has many attractions, not least its huge number of breweries where beer lovers are well catered for in virtually every town and village.