A Nine Storey Pagoda in a Taoist Temple
Shibaozhi Pagoda (石宝寨塔), built against a 200m high rocky hill facing the Yangtze River in Chongqing, is one of the…
A Chinese Town on Cliff Top
This is Daoist Qiyun Mountain (meaning a mountain as high as clouds) in Anhui Province, 585 metres above sea level.…
A Historical Beijing
Altar of Heaven, the 1920s Altar of Heaven in the south of Beijing Forbidden City, built 600 years ago during…
A 400-Year-Old Bordertown in Desert
A Bordertown in Gansu In a remote desert region in China’s west in today’s Yongtai County, Gansu Province, there is…
A Brief Introduction to Chinese Buddhist Temples
A classic Chinese Buddhist temple is typically a building complex consisting of several courtyards as shown in the illustration below.…
Traditional Chinese Roofs
Traditional Chinese architecture is not only as old as Chinese civilization with 5,000 years of history but unique in the…
Chinese Garden Pavilions
A traditional Chinese pavilion is normally a covered small structure with little or no wall. These open structures were initially…
Bizarre Public Toilets in China
If you think it’s a small woods by the roadside in Shenzhen, you are wrong. It is a public toilet…
Two Ancient Chinese Villages in a Deep Mountain
Four Architects from Beijing It was in the mid-1980s, the day two weeks before Chinese New Year. On a dirt road…