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Where the Wild Things Are: Fuchsia Dunlop and Chinese Cuisine

WildChina’s next installment of Where the Wild Things Are: A WildChina Series is going to feature Fuchsia Dunlop a food writer and cook extraordinaire at Capital M. In addition to having a chance to hear...
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Man enjoying his tea

The Opus of Hot Pot

Bubbling ferociously, steam rising from its top, Inner Mongolia’s hot pot is one of a kind. How many meals can claim to offer both the complex taste of a delicious soup with the simple fun...
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Man looking after cattle on the Tibetan plateau

Dawn at Jinshanling

WildChina Tour Leader Christian discusses a recent survey trip to the Jinshanling (Golden Mountain) section of the Great Wall: It’s not every day you get a chance to come to the Great Wall. When my...
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Fisherman in YangShuo

How about Winter Vacation in China?

When winter arrives, it brings snow which covers city streets in a silent white blanket. However, it is never long before the beautiful white crystals have been ground into a brown slurry in the streets....
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Buddhist sculpture and art

Shanghai or Beijing?

Time after time, year after year Shanghai and Beijing are compared and contrasted; poked and inspected. Just like London and Paris, the question that people are endlessly scrambling to find an answer to is: which...
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Chinese door in Hutong alley

Ningxia: A look at China’s Peaceful Northwest

Ask someone where Ningxia province is and they might be hard pushed to place it on China’s sprawling map. This region may not be as famous as Yunnan or Sichuan but what lies within its...
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The mystic Yellow Mountain in Anhui

Musings on Mongolia

On the road from Ulaan Baatar to a ger camp You would think that China and Mongolia, countries with a lengthy common border and an inextricably linked history would boast at least superficial similarities but...
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Traditional Chinese Architecture

WildChina’s Teach For China Interns

If you have had a discussion with anyone about American education then you probably have heard of “Teach for America.” But have you heard of “Teach for China?” Started in 2008, Teach for China’s website...
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Rice Terraces in the south of China

The best bites in Beijing and Shanghai

Crackling, succulent duck, wrapped in a transparent pancake with julienned cucumbers and drizzled with a dark plum sauce. Ah, the joy of Beijing’s Peking duck. Shanghai’s masterpiece? Soup dumplings. Warm, delicate dough, twisted into the...
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Man looking after cattle on the Tibetan plateau

Guizhou’s Defining Dish

Most people have heard of Beijing’s Peking Duck, and Shanghai’s soup dumplings, but what takes the cake in China’s mountainous southwestern province of Guizhou? We sat down with WildChina Manager, and Guizhou native, Sherril Sui, to get an...
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