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“Want to understand Chinese food? Don’t start in a restaurant. Start in a market.” We Didn’t Expect a Morning Market to Become One of the Highlights of Chengdu When people think about Chengdu, they usually picture giant pandas, spicy hotpot and the...

Ask almost anyone planning their first trip to Chengdu (成都, Chéngdū) and you’ll hear the same list. See the giant pandas. Eat hotpot. Visit 宽窄巷子 (Kuānzhǎi Xiàngzi). Walk 春熙路 (Chūnxī Lù, Chunxi Road). Take a selfie with the famous panda climbing out of the IFS shopping mall....

“Sometimes the city that changes your understanding of a country isn’t the one you planned to visit most.” If you’ve been reading ChinaTravelBug, you’ll probably notice something. We write a lot about Beijing (北京, Běijīng). We write even more about Xi’an (西安, Xī’ān). Those...

One of China’s Best Museums for Understanding How Chinese Civilisation Was Built Looking for the Qin-Han Museum? Don’t Go to the Wrong Museum! Most international visitors planning a China travel itinerary to Xi’an (西安) know about the famous Shaanxi History Museum (陕西历史博物馆) in the city centre. Very...

The Silk Road Didn’t Begin China’s Global Story: Foreign Influences on Qin and Han China One of the biggest surprises waiting inside the Qin and Han Civilization Museum is that China’s connection with the outside world did not begin with the Silk Road....

From weights and measures to roads, farming, education and medicine, the practical innovations that shaped Chinese civilisation. In the first article, we explored how the Qin (秦) and Han (汉) dynasties built the political foundations of Chinese civilisation. The museum argued that their greatest legacy...
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