Vagabond Journey Travel Stories and World Culture » China

In search of Bangkok's most elusive cafe.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/search-for-the-hidden-cafe/

Watching the winds of history blow through.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/before-the-storm-on-the-ground-in-china/

Finally cracked them.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/talking-about-the-belt-and-road-on-the-independent-today/

On the road with MRP in the mountains of Yunnan as the rest of the planet wallows in quarantine.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/coronavirus-diaries-traveling-china-as-the-world-remains-in-lockdown/

No dogs or foreigners allowed.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/the-xenophobia-in-china-is-getting-worse-by-the-day/

As the Cover-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, the world's two superpowers are coming to blows.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/from-trade-war-to-cold-war-china-u-s-relations-collapsing-amid-coronavirus-pandemic/

So you want to go out along the New Silk Road, do ya?

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/how-to-travel-the-new-silk-road/

This could have been bad.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/when-interviewing-always-make-sure-responses-are-original/

I could have done more.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/upset-about-my-work-in-china/

Getting my name on the cover of someone else's book ...

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/first-book-blurb-chinas-urban-revolution/

The full ABC News ghost cities interview.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/chinas-ghost-cities-in-2018-video/

A 12,000 kilometer trans-Eurasian journey has come to an end.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/they-made-it-the-new-silk-road-project-arrives-in-yiwu/

Ghost Cities of China makes the list.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/my-book-named-as-one-of-30-best-books-to-understand-modern-china/

The feeling here is familiar.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/the-other-side-of-singapore/

Yes, China is doing something about its mess of new cities.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/new-urbanization-guidelines-set-to-fix-chinas-cities/

This is the China I remember ... and kind of miss.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/preparation-for-brics-summit-in-xiamen-typical-typical-china/

There is probably a reason why five thousand years of history produced such bad food.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/why-chinese-food-is-so-bad/

For all intents and purposes Petra is still very much culturally Chinese.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/if-culture-is-learned-when-young-then-my-daughter-is-half-chinese/

I once mistakenly tried to enter through the fake door of a fake restaurant next to some fake windmills in a fake town. Yes, I'm traveling in China.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/what-happens-in-chinas-western-replica-towns/

When China talks the world listens. Many will say that they are not telling the truth, but few can offer anything better.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/on-chinas-gdp-believability/

Industrial capacity is not national but global.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/china-is-laying-off-steel-workers-too-millions-of-them-in-fact/

There is a masterplan. Yes, there is a masterplan.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/one-way-that-china-populates-its-ghost-cities/

What being a trailblazer really means.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/on-being-a-trailblazer/

Is street food becoming another Chinese tradition to disappear?

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/fast-food-replacing-street-food-in-china/

Is China expanding its aviation network too quickly?

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/pilot-says-china-has-created-an-aviation-disaster-waiting-to-happen/

When traveling to China's new cities and urban developments I've found myself in many of the country's new Western-style replica towns. This is what these places are all about.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/on-chinas-western-style-copycat-architecture/

An in-depth interview with someone who knows how fast China changes.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/how-fast-china-changes-an-interview-with-robert-kelly-coauthor-lonely-planets-china-guide/

Can these new green cities be a salve for China's battered environment?

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/can-ecocities-solve-chinas-environmental-problems/

Before new cities can be built the land must first be cleared.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/clearing-the-land-inside-chinas-mass-demolitions-and-land-grabs/

During its urbanization boom period, China was producing enough new floorspace to cover Hong Kong two times over each year, so why are there still between 20 and 45 million empty homes across Chi...

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/9-reasons-why-chinas-ghost-cities-are-so-empty/

Almost daily we hear stories of accidents and disasters happening in China. Why do these tragedies happen there so often?

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/seven-reasons-why-china-is-so-disaster-prone/

China has built hundreds of completely new cities across the country. What is the future of these places?

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/what-is-the-future-of-chinas-ghost-cities/

The average building in China is expected to last for 35 to 30 years as the obsolescence of consumer goods is applied to urban design. Here's why.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/why-china-is-building-disposable-cities/

China often stimulates growth in its new cities and districts with massive university towns.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/how-universities-are-used-to-stimulate-growth-in-chinas-ghost-cities/

This view from my window was earned the hard way.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/the-view-from-my-window-xian-east-gate/

As China transitions from being the "world's factory" to a global epicenter of innovation the maker movement is being brought to the forefront of national attention.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/china-finds-the-new-frontiers-of-innovation-in-the-maker-movement/

A rough rendition of a rant that I gave a reporter of a major financial magazine. May contain some bullshit.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/cant-take-a-snapshot-of-china-and-expect-it-to-remain-the-same/

China has been doing what it does for a very, very long time, and our reaction has always been pretty much the same.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/china-building-bridges-to-nowhere-a-long-time-ago-too/

Shenzhen has become a dream city for the world's makers and other high-tech hardware innovators.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/how-shenzhen-became-the-global-epicenter-of-high-tech-innovation/

China is growing -- literally. Each year China grows by the size of Singapore through reclaiming land from the sea.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/a-gift-from-the-sea-on-chinas-land-reclamation-free-for-all/

Urbanization is an economic movement, and in an age where development is being chastised as a prime source of pollution in China, eco-cities seem to be the answer to keep the money flowing.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/the-economic-side-of-chinas-eco-cities/

A new expressway is being built that will connect the Yellow Sea coast of China with Western Europe. It's called the Western Europe - Western China Road, but is better known as the New Silk Highw...

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/riding-the-new-silk-highway-the-new-road-that-connects-europe-and-asia/

Chongqing in 25 images.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/a-glimpse-at-chongqing-photos/

Vanke, a major Chinese development firm, estimates that 2/3 of its new housing projects are in the Western architectural style, but this is nothing new in China.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/chinas-fetish-western-style-architecture-older-think/

I ask about an observation and I'm told about an interesting and widespread cultural practice.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/im-told-why-chinese-people-have-flat-heads/

China is currently in the process of building 200 new eco-cities, but what are these places all about and do they actually provide the ecological benefits they promise?

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/the-reality-behind-chinas-eco-city-hype/

This is the view from my window in Chongqing.

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/the-view-from-my-window-yangtze-river-chongqing/

China is now building sponge cities. What are these places?

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/what-are-sponge-cities-and-why-is-china-building-so-many-of-them/

Can the masses of Syrian refugees in need of places to live be moved into China's millions of empty apartments?

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/do-chinas-ghost-cities-offer-a-solution-for-syrian-refugees/

With the Khorgos ICBC become an epicenter of global commerce along the New Silk Road or remain a Chinese wholesale market flung out on the Eurasian steppes?

https://www.vagabondjourney.com/a-journey-into-khorgos-icbc-china-and-kazakhstans-shared-free-trade-zone/