A Tourist's View of China

Forbidden City, Beijing

Sweeper in the Forbidden City

 Lotus at the Summer Palace, Beijing

 Tea in Beijing

 Huang Binyan, Rabbit (after Jeff Koons), 2004, at Zhong Fang Jiao Gallery in the 798 Art District, Beijing

 Yan Pei-Ming, Landscape of Childhood, displayed at UCCA in the 798 Art District

Vendor and stall at the Night Market in Beijing

Crabs at the Night Market

Vajrabhairava, 1368–1644, National Art Museum, Beijing

Boju Li, Western Zhou Dynasty, National Art Museum

 Cave 7 or 8, Yungang Caves, Datong (Northern Wei)

 Yungang Caves, Datong (Northern Wei)

Yungang Caves

Nine Dragon Screen [detail], Datong

 Hanging Temple, Datong

Entrance to the Hanging Temple

Confucian statue at the Hanging Temple 

 Terracotta soldiers from the Qin Shi Huangdi necropolis, Xi'an

Terracotta figure of a high ranking officer from the Qin Shi Huangdi necropolis

 Folk art vendors near the Qianling Tomb

One of several giant statues in the Famen Temple complex

Prayer cushions near the Small Goose Pagoda

 

Roof detail at the Great Mosque, Xi'an

The Great Mosque, Xi'an

Cricket cages outside a store in the Muslim Quarter, Xi'an

Bird cages in the Muslim Quarter

Trinket stall with baby booties

"Golden Monster" at the Shaanxi History Museum, Xi'an

Zhuang village of Ping An

Longji rice terraces

In the hills around Ping An

  

Bamboo near Ping An

"Minority village" near Longsheng

Merchants on the Li River

Water buffalo along the Li River

Cormorant fisherman in Yangshuo

Yangshuo

Karst formations and fields in Yangshuo

Yangshuo home

Yangshuo market

All photos by author.