Guilin.

The lanes outside Jingjiang Princes’ City show how inherited urban space, buried remains and reconstruction can coexist.

Duxiu Peak’s famous inscription connects landscape praise with examination ambition and a much longer literary conversation.

Pounding, boiling and sharing turn tea into a savory social occasion in Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, southeast of Guilin.

Guilin’s limestone landscape includes clustered hills, isolated towers and the water-shaped ground between them.

Named waterways, designed lake gardens and Elephant Trunk Hill bring water, limestone and urban history together in central Guilin.

Duxiu Peak anchors Jingjiang Princes’ City, where Ming rule, Qing examinations, modern education and archaeological remains occupy the same Guilin compound.

The Li River’s limestone gorge, alluvial ground and changing viewpoints reveal a landscape shaped by water, painting and watershed care.

At Lingqu in Xing’an County, overflow weirs, divided channels and curved reaches connect the Xiang and Li river systems.

Forest litter, channels and local water management connect Longji’s terraces with the wider working landscape of Longsheng County.

Local memories, language schools and street-vendor research reveal how travel transformed a small-town street into a contested shared space.

A celebrated river image is only the beginning: Xingping also contains residential streets, repair histories and a carefully produced photography economy.

A legendary singer, community song traditions and modern adaptations meet in Yangshuo’s best-known cultural name, while retaining distinct histories.

Weirs, fields and village infrastructure reveal the work behind a landscape often described only as peaceful countryside.

Pottery, tools, animal remains and pollen reveal different parts of a prehistoric world at a cave in southern Guilin.