Explore China: Top Featured Articles and Insights

Step into the vibrant tapestry of Chinese culture, technology, and trends with our handpicked articles.

Handpicked Stories from China’s Heartbeat. Amazing images, videos, news, trends, pictures, technology, architecture, art, design, reports from China, and Hong Kong.

train trips in China

Getting home: unforgettable moments of train trips over the Chinese New Year – from 1990 to 2010

Train trips in China during the Chinese holidays

Every year, hundreds of millions of migrant workers go back to their hometowns to celebrate the Chinese New Year Festival.

Trains are packed to capacity and trip conditions are scarcely bearable. Sometimes the travel to home can last two days. China expects 3.6 Bln Trips Over Lunar New Year.

Images of train trips in China during the Chinese New Year

train trips in China
train trips in China

1999

train trips in China

train trips in China

1991, Shanghai-Chongqing.

train trips in China

1995. Wuhan-Changsha

train trips in China

1992. Heilongjiang

train trips in China

1996. Guangzhou-Chengdu

train trips in China

1996. Qiqihar-Beijing

train trips in China
train trips in China

2001

train trips in China

2001

train trips in China

2010

Source

The village in a cave in Guizhou

The village in a cave in Guizhou

Getu-River National Park in Guizhou Province, not far from Anshun is dotted by hundreds of mountains eroded by the force of water and wind. In a large cave live today 18 people (in 2007 they were about one hundred), all of the Miao ethnic minority group.

The villagers of Tajing have lived here for centuries. The largest cave is approximately 230 meters long, 115 wide, and 50 high. In China, they became famous after a China Daily article in 2007, which depicted them as modern troglodytes. Other articles claimed they were the last tribe who lived in a cave in Asia (but that’s not true). They have developed into a quasi-tribal society. Inside the cave, there are many houses, all without a roof, a school, and a basketball court. Most of the people left the village in search of money and job opportunities. However, many others refused to leave the village and even refused new houses built by the local government. In Southwest China, there is also another village in a cave, Fengyandong, in Yunnan province.

The village in a cave in Guizhou
The village in a cave in Guizhou
The village in a cave in Guizhou
The village in a cave in Guizhou
The village in a cave in Guizhou

The new houses built by the government and refused by the villagers

\The village in a cave in Guizhou

The villagers in 2007

The village in a cave in Guizhou
The village in a cave in Guizhou

The village in 2011

The village in a cave in Guizhou
The village in a cave in Guizhou
The village in a cave in Guizhou
The village in a cave in Guizhou
The village in a cave in Guizhou
The village in a cave in Guizhou
The village in a cave in Guizhou

Source 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

backlinks > inhabitat , urbanista

Chinese Communist locomotives

Mao Zedong locomotives

Chinese Communist locomotives In 1946, the Manzhouli railway station, located in Inner Mongolia on the main rail line to Harbin, became notable for an event … Read more

Chinese brothels

22 images of police raids on brothels in China

Chinese brothels: From time to time in major Chinese sites are posted pictures of police raids on brothels.

Photos of arrested people, taken by photographers who accompany police during operations, are published as a warning. A modern form of a medieval pillory, in order to discourage customers.

Related: Pictures of raids on Chinese prostitution, The history of prostitution in Modern China

August 31, 2010. Police in Fuzhou arrests two transvestites who used fake breasts.

Related: Pictures of raids on Chinese prostitution , The history of prostitution in Modern China


November 2010. The police of Guangxi breaks into a 4-star hotel where they found 6 prostitutes, students of a local school, some of which pregnant.

August 2010. Fujian. 6 men and 6 prostitutes arrested.

May 2010. Beijing police during a large-scale raid on 4 nightclub arrests dozens of prostitutes.

July 9, 2010. Kunming. Man pleads to let him go, but the pictures are published in all the major sites.

Guangxi police crushes a huge traffic of more than 90 men and women forced into prostitution.

Chongqing


Dongguan. Four prostitutes are arrested during the Asian Games

Xi’an


August 3, 2010, Nanning. Police arrested 26 people. They also seized two homemade guns.

30 agosto 2010. Shanghai.

November 2010. A drunken customer challenged and mocked photographers.

December 3, 2010. Police in Guilin crushes a network of African women forced into prostitution.

Sometimes raids may turn in grotesque. A customer in Jilin, still naked, tries to escape by climbing on the roof.

Topic: Chinese Brothels,brothels pictures,Beijing prostitutes pictures,photographs of prostitutes

urban villages in China

City Eraser: the demolition of an urban village in China

Kunming, China.

Every day, millions of square meters of old slums are torn down to make room for luxury condos and shopping malls.

Although these neighborhoods are demolished, people try to lead a normal life.

[embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8n6RHxVuxE[/embedyt]

A video showing the demolition of urban villages in China.

If you are interested in this topic, please check China Suburbia, a photo project on urban development in China.

city-eraser-title

Video by Matteo Damiani | www.china-underground.com
Music by Felix l’Amour

topics: Chinese urbanization, urban villages, ghost cities in China