Category: China
This struggle for political ideals quickly degenerated into political extremism and civil war. A least a million Chinese lost their lives in the upheaval and innumerable cultural treasures including …
Wall painting from the Thousand Buddha Caves of Bezeklik In Cave No. 39 can be seen a group of mourners accompanied by thirteen Cave No. 39 disciples of Buddha. …
During the war with Japan and the subsequent civil war Zhou devoted himself to diplomacy. When the People’s Republic was founded in 1949 Zhou became prime minister, an office …
Dragon Refuge Cave in the west of the park contains over one hundred inscriptions, ranging in date from the Northern Song period (960-1126) to the early 20th c. Elephant …
It is six hours by train from Nanjing and eleven from Shanghai. By air it is a two-hour flight from Beijing or Canton and one hour from Shanghai; there …
Peking Man This temple, situated 35km/22 miles to the west of Beijing at the foot of the Ma’anshan Mountain, dates from 622. However, nearly all the buildings were reconstructed …
The 300-year Tang ascendancy brought advances in the world of the arts. Poetry of a quality rarely surpassed was written and the skilled pottery makers have bequeathed to posterity …
Dalian lies at 121°40’E and 38°52’N, at the southernmost tip ofthe Liaodong peninsula. It is linked with Shenyang by rail and a motorway, with Shanghai by regular service ships, …
Hall of the Buddhist Wheel (Falun Dian) The Pavilion of the Four-tongued Stele stands in the centre of the next courtyard, it houses a stele dating back to the …
From Beijing to Qingdao via Shenyang (Mukden), Changchun, Harbin, Dalian (Port Arthur) and Yantai Shenyang (Mukden) is situated north-east of Beijing and the 840km/520 mile journey takes about eleven …