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China 2026 — all posts
- 1 — Shanghaied
- 2 — Three days in Shanghai
- 3 — Xi’an, the beginning of the Silk Road
- 4 — Chengdu, panda town
- 5 — Chongqing, the world’s biggest city?
- 6 — Zhenyuan, the other Silk Road
- 7 — Xijiang, the village that is paid to look like itself
- 8 — Zhangjiajie, the mountain that was renamed after a film
- 9 — Yangshuo, the view on the twenty
- 10 — Shenzhen, from thirty thousand people
- 11 — Why China’s big cities are so quiet
- 12 — Hong Kong, nowhere to go but up
- 13 — Traveling through China’s holidays
- 14 — Taipei, four kilometers of gondola
- 15 — Alishan, the forest that left by train
- 16 — Tainan, where the gods answer yes or no
- 17 — Taiwan, a short history of a long question
- 18 — Why Uber in Taiwan sends you a taxi
- 19 — Hualien, a gorge you can only look at
- 20 — Jiufen, the gold you are allowed to touch
- 21 — Beware of Old Street
- 22 — Taipei, the crates that crossed the strait
- 23 — Shanghai again, through new glasses
- 24 — Train travel in China
- 25 — Paying for things in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
- 26 — Getting online behind the Great Firewall
- 27 — China at 72
- 28 — Six weeks in China and Taiwan: the route, and what I would change
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