
Beijing
Imperial gardens, palace roofs and a wall that follows the mountains.

Imperial gardens, palace roofs and a wall that follows the mountains.

Bridges, trains and streets stack above two rivers.

City walls and night markets, with the Terracotta Army east of town.

Watch boats on West Lake, then follow the hills into Longjing tea country.

White walls, narrow canals and gardens designed as small landscapes.

Evening crowds on East Nanjing Road, red roofs in the old city and towers across the Huangpu.

Giant pandas, teahouses under the trees and fire on the opera stage.

Sandstone pillars rise out of forest and cloud in Wulingyuan.

Tropical bays and forested headlands at the southern tip of Hainan.

Clear lakes and waterfalls sit in a forested mountain valley.

Granite ridges and wind-shaped pines emerge from cloud.

Villages and fields run between the Cangshan range and Erhai Lake.

Canals thread an old town below the mountains of northwest Yunnan.

Red roofs meet rocky shores on the Yellow Sea.

The Potala Palace rises over the city against a high mountain valley.

Forested slopes wrap around an alpine lake in the Altay Mountains.

Bands of red and ochre fold through the hills at the edge of the Hexi Corridor.

An open lake meets grassland and the mountain ridges of western Xinjiang.

White-walled villages sit among terraces, hills and fields.

Carved sandstone meets the open country of northern Shanxi.

Monastery roofs and broad wetlands sit above the valleys of Yunnan.

Stone bridges and waterside houses line a network of canals.

Tropical forest and river valleys at the far south of Yunnan.

Karst peaks rise around the bends of the Li River.

A river city that lights up when the ice comes in.

A crescent lake sits below the dunes at the edge of an oasis.

Harbour water separates Gulangyu’s roofs from the modern shoreline.