China

A thief unwittingly stirs up memories of a distant past spanning generations of travel and immigration between China and Scotland. This story is the winner of the Reunions travel writing…

Despite illness and inconvenience, a traveler is determined to experience all that Shanghai has to offer. Sleeping in the Shanghai Pudong International Airport overnight only made me think of one…

While volunteering among earthquake survivors in rural Sichuan, a travel writer discovers that the “real” China is both beautiful and confronting. “Lushan is a nice village. Maybe one million,” our…

30.1 million people – greater than the population of New Zealand, Australia and Scotland combined. A city of skyscrapers erupting chaotically out of cloud strewn mountains like fungus on a…

This series details six months the author spent as a student in Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, in 2014. Part 1. Part 2. We all got used to…

This series details six months I spent as a student in Chengdu the capital of China’s Sichuan province, in 2014. Read part 1 here. When you the North Gate of…

  Vibrant blue and yellow prayer flags were wrapped around an ugly metal pylon. The thin fabric shook frantically in the wind, as if electrified by the current surging through…

  A Highway on the Outskirts of Chengdu, China. December 2016. The taxi driver attacked the road with staccato fury, charging forward into every gap, honking incessantly. This was pretty…

We hightailed it outta Tianjin through smog that caught in your throat, erased buildings barely 50 meters away, and tinged everything with a sickly orange-brown hue. Jaded from over a…