Barking Up the Right Trees

Resting off the southernmost tip of China, tropical Hainan Island is renowned for its fruits. According to historical records...

A Quest for Survival

Guangxi is famous not only for its Zhuang ethnic attractions, but also its appealing natural landscapes...

Chinese Haggling 101

Now go practice your haggling skills at Panjiayuan Market in Southeast Beijing. The massive 48,500 squaremeter Flea Market is the best place in Beijing to buy cool Chinese stuff. The market is chocked full of items you won’t know you have to have until you see them.

A Man's Home Is His Castle

In the city of Kaiping in Guangdong Province, diaolou structures (fortified towers) aren’t just popular buildings – they represent a heroic history to residents of the area.

8 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About China

Although many China Pictorial readers are within China’s provinces and regions (even the English version), this English version has distribution in over 180 countries worldwide...

The Birdmen of Beijing

The Faithful Fishermen
A Season Begins with Celebration

On China’s eastern seaboard in Shandong Province is Tianheng, a small seaside village community extant for more than 2,000 years...

In Vogue and Value

At the Dafang Store, in Beijing’s Chongwen District, the salesperson says “That’s 1.9 yuan, plus 9.0 yuan, plus 5.4 yuan …”

Culture Of Cloth

In the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, in the westerly province of Guizhou, live about 4 million people of the Dong ethnic group. They are famous for their lustrous traditional cloth...

China’s West through a Western Lens
A Slice of Xinjiang

We were not moving as fast as I would have liked, down the desert highway, with not much to see just then, camera still stowed. But in the singular region of Xinjiang...

Coffee Gets Ground in the Kingdom of Tea

In Daji Village, Fushan, on the southern island province of Hainan, 81-year-old Wu Liehong hasn’t gone without his morning cup of coffee in five decades...

The Root of Reverence

Published in 1976, Alex Haley’s novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, achieved a groundbreaking level of popularity and garnered great critical acclaim. Written by an African-American