Beautiful SiMaTai Great Wall and the nearby GuBei water-town

Also known as the Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year starts on Saturday 28th January this year and on the mainland lasts one week. This year, based on a lunar calendar, will be the Year of the Rooster. Preparations will already be under way and include a spring clean and adding festive decorations. New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are a time for family reunions, and for many this means travelling home from the city to the countryside.

A fascinating documentary, in English. Discover how this place embodied the quintessential Chinese garden arts, and how it came to be destroyed ...

Provincial capital of FuJian, east China.

Continuing our visitors' Chinese language guide ...

A trip to these three nearby cities on China's east coast.

Best photography, best battery life and super-fast charging ... Bonus film, with Nathan Rich :

A selection of the songs and fireworks ...

Brave voices speak out despite the chilling, silencing fear of firebombs and steel pipes of the foreign-backed subversive destroyers. Fascist colonialism re-branded as 'freedom and democracy'; in reality, everything but. The rioters are either imports or dupes. Either way, probably best called terrorists, because terror is their mode of action.

A very beautiful timelapse film by Jeffrey Poon ...

The town 'where nobody is a stranger' ...

TianJin lies east of Beijing on the coast. One of the most vibrant places in China. Just 30 minutes from Beijing by high-speed rail. Take a gentle sail through beautifully lit TianJin ...