Wenzhou is one of Zhejiang’s best-known cities, but it is not famous by accident. It has long been a place of family firms, overseas links, hard-edged manufacturing and a coastline that has pushed the ...

Memory walked through Paris on Saturday as a small but determined crowd crossed the city in tribute to the victims of the Nanjing Massacre. But a quiet civic gesture instead became a public reminder ...

Few Zhejiang cities carry such an easy first impression and such a complicated life beneath it. Shaoxing looks like a place of canals, wine jars and old scholars; in practice it is also a hard-working ...

Taizhou is one of Zhejiang’s most practical cities, but it is also one of its most varied. It has long coastlines, island chains, deep mountain valleys and a private economy that has helped shape its ...

Far off the Zhejiang coast, Zhoushan feels less like a single city than a working archipelago. Sea, shipping and salt air shape everything here; from the fishing docks to the temples on Putuo Mountain ...

Crossing the Yangtze into Wuhu, many would not at first suspect they are entering one of Anhui’s most quietly consequential cities; a place where rice, river trade, old foreign links and modern ...

Canals, train lines and conference halls have all had a hand in Jiaxing’s rise, but the city still starts with water. South Lake gave it national memory; silk gave it trade; and Wuzhen later gave it a ...

High in the mountains of southwestern Zhejiang, Lishui does not try to look flat or easy. Here, forested slopes, river headwaters and scattered settlements mean distance has shaped habit and habit has ...

June’s 618 shopping season is back in its favourite role as China’s annual retail loudhailer. The number attached to it may still flirt with ¥1 trillion, but the real story is less about the headline ...

The Nanjinger’s Metro Map is perfect for planning a night out or an adventure to somewhere new with an early start. That’s because it’s unique in Nanjing, as the title above implies. Not only are ...

Christianity in Nanjing as regards architecture is reflected in the enormous significance of three structures in particular, each remarkable for having survived until this day. 南京的基督教建筑尤其体现在三座建筑的巨大意义上 ...

Unlike costumes in Western operas, those in Chinese Opera are highly symbolic, hinting at the personality, social status and even the destiny of the operatic characters, characterised by their colours ...