MasaneMiyaPA · CC BY-SA 4.0 · resized and re-encoded Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ City Hangzhou A lake, tea-covered hills and a city living beside its waterways. Explore this place ↗
Windmemories · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized; WebP conversion. City Jiaxing Canals, everyday craft and water towns with lives of their own. Explore this place ↗
Nat Krause · Public domain Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Place · Hangzhou West Lake Causeways, changing seasons and stories reflected in the lake. Explore this place ↗
West Lake scenic-area official website · Rights information Photo source ↗ Place · Hangzhou Lingyin Temple A wooded valley of Buddhist halls and stone carvings. Explore this place ↗
钱塘新区报 / 方波 · Rights information Photo source ↗ Place · Hangzhou Qiantang River An open riverfront and the rhythm of a remarkable tide. Explore this place ↗
Fredlyfish4 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized; WebP conversion. Place · Hangzhou China Tea Museum Tea gardens, tea ware and two campuses connect Hangzhou’s Longjing with a wider world of tea. Explore this place ↗
Siyuwj · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized; WebP conversion. Place · Hangzhou China National Silk Museum Cocoons, looms and patterned cloth introduce silk as a material, a skill and a connection between places. Explore this place ↗
Niklas Dougherty · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized; WebP conversion. Place · Hangzhou Longjing Village A working village of tea fields, wooded slopes and everyday Hangzhou life, where the landscape is read through small paths, houses and the spring harvest. Explore this place ↗
Wuzhen Scenic Area article; photographer not identified · Rights information Photo source ↗ Place · Jiaxing Wuzhen Waterside homes, indigo cloth and a town alive with theatre. Explore this place ↗
Wang Buliu (page credit) · Rights information Photo source ↗ Place · Jiaxing Xitang Covered waterside walks, stone bridges and narrow lanes. Explore this place ↗
Windmemories · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized; WebP conversion. Place · Jiaxing South Lake · Nanhu Open water, a lakeside pavilion and a chapter of modern history. Explore this place ↗
Windmemories · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized; WebP conversion. Place · Jiaxing Yuehe · Moon River Canal-side streets, old shopfronts and the flavours of everyday life. Explore this place ↗
Mx. Granger · CC0 1.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized; WebP conversion. City Ningbo A port city with books in its keeping Explore this place ↗
Mx. Granger · CC0 1.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized; WebP conversion. Place · Ningbo Tianyi Pavilion A library planned around the care of books Explore this place ↗
Leiem · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized; WebP conversion. City Zhoushan An archipelago city shaped by open water, working harbours and island shores. Explore this place ↗
Leiem · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized; WebP conversion. Place · Zhoushan Mount Putuo On Putuo Island, temple courtyards, wooded slopes and the sea meet in a place shaped by Guanyin devotion. Explore this place ↗
kevinmcgill from Den Bosch, Netherlands · CC BY-SA 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP. City Suzhou Gardens, water streets and nearby canal towns reveal different ways of making room for life beside water. Explore this place ↗
xiquinhosilva · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP. City Nanjing Read a former capital through its defensive landscape, contrasting memorials and examination culture. Explore this place ↗
Amarespeco · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP. City Yangzhou Canal commerce, seasonal stone landscapes, and the exacting work behind a bowl of tofu. Explore this place ↗
記小三 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP. City Wuxi Read Wuxi through its lake shores, family halls and the clay workshops of Yixing. Explore this place ↗
rheins · CC BY 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP. City Zhenjiang River-facing temples and weathered calligraphy make Zhenjiang a place to explore how stories attach themselves to a landscape. Explore this place ↗
Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China · CC0 1.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP. City Xuzhou Enter the world of Han kings through rock-cut tombs, jade burial objects and stone pictures of work, feasting and imagined immortality. Explore this place ↗
Kmchang28 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP. City Huai'an Follow grain, water and stories through a canal city shaped by hydraulic engineering, merchant streets and the memory of Journey to the West. Explore this place ↗
xiquinhosilva · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP. Place · Suzhou Humble Administrator’s Garden Wang Xianchen’s garden offers a way into the language of retreat and the construction of watery views. Explore this place ↗
Place · Suzhou Pingjiang Historic District A canal-side neighbourhood whose parallel routes preserve a legible urban pattern. Explore this place ↗
Lamassu Design Gurdjieff ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP. Place · Suzhou Tongli A water town where communal bridges and a private garden give water different meanings. Explore this place ↗
Place · Suzhou Retreat and Reflection Garden Ren Lansheng’s Tuisi Garden places architecture close to the water after a reversal in his official career. Explore this place ↗
Place · Nanjing Nanjing City Wall A defensive system shaped by hills, water and the labour of named brickmakers. Explore this place ↗
Place · Nanjing Zhongshan / Purple Mountain A shared mountain setting for two very different statements about political authority. Explore this place ↗
Place · Nanjing Qinhuai and the Examination Quarter A riverside district where education, official ambition and urban commerce intersected. Explore this place ↗
Place · Yangzhou · Currently reading China Grand Canal Museum A place to connect Yangzhou’s streets to the larger history of inland waterways. Explore this place ↗
Place · Yangzhou Salt Merchant Culture Exhibition Hall A merchant residence gives the salt economy a domestic scale. Explore this place ↗
Caitriana Nicholson from 北京 ~ Beijing, 中国 ~ China · CC BY-SA 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP. Place · Yangzhou Geyuan Garden Four seasonal landscapes composed through stone, plants, light, and movement. Explore this place ↗
Place · Yangzhou Dongguan Street An old commercial street where canal history meets food and everyday trade. Explore this place ↗
Place · Yangzhou Slender West Lake A waterside counterpart to Yangzhou’s enclosed gardens. Explore this place ↗
Place · Wuxi Taihu and Lihu Lake scenery shaped by garden patrons and the work of restoring a shoreline. Explore this place ↗
Place · Wuxi Huishan Ancient Town Ancestral halls, riverfront architecture and garden spaces preserve several kinds of memory. Explore this place ↗
Place · Wuxi Yixing A distinct pottery city within Wuxi, where zisha turns a small vessel into a complex work of design. Explore this place ↗
Place · Zhenjiang Jinshan Temple A hillside Buddhist monastery where the White Snake legend meets a much longer religious and architectural history. Explore this place ↗
Place · Zhenjiang Jiaoshan Stele Forest Broken stone, powerful writing and river erosion give this calligraphy landscape an unusually physical sense of history. Explore this place ↗
Place · Xuzhou Shizishan Chu King's Tomb A royal burial cut into a hill, best read alongside the objects recovered from Xuzhou's Han tombs. Explore this place ↗
Place · Xuzhou Xuzhou Han Stone Relief Art Museum A museum for reading ancient pictures: banquets, weaving, processions and supernatural worlds carved into architectural stone. Explore this place ↗
Place · Huai'an Qingjiang Lock and the Li Canal A modest-looking water-control site that makes the Grand Canal's engineering and human effort tangible. Explore this place ↗
Place · Huai'an Hexia and Wu Cheng'en's Memorial Residence Merchant streets and literary commemoration meet in a neighbourhood linked to the writer traditionally credited with Journey to the West. Explore this place ↗
xiquinhosilva · CC BY 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP. Place · Suzhou Zhouzhuang Read a water town through two different bridges and the waterside household of Shen Benren. Explore this place ↗
Chainwit. · CC BY 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP. Place · Nanjing Niushoushan A contemporary Buddhist palace turns a former mining site into a landscape of devotion and architectural symbolism. Explore this place ↗
How Salt Became a City ↗Trace the connections between Yangzhou’s canal, merchant houses, book collecting, and performance.