Travel

Where's Hollo?

April 4th, 2012  |  by  |  published in Features, Travel

Where's Hollo?

Picking a tall white guy out of a bil­lion or so Chinese is harder than we thought. Zach Hollo's going all kinds of places in China and writ­ing about it. Seen him around?

Video: Tongli, Venice of the East

March 29th, 2012  |  by  |  published in Travel, Uncategorized, zS Blogs

Video: Tongli, Venice of the East

Despite its touristy cen­ter, the canal town of Tongli still has a few quiet, scenic cor­ners left to explore, as Sophie Elias dis­cov­ers with her video cam­era

Where to go: The Shanghai Science and Technology Museum

March 24th, 2012  |  by  |  published in Travel, zS Blogs

Where to go: The Shanghai Science and Technology Museum

Lily Chin on the inter­ac­tive fun and won­ders avail­able near the site of the future NYU Shanghai cam­pus in Pudong… robots, anti­grav­ity, Imax!

A Jiangxi countryside wedding: Cultural divides, family ties and a changing China

January 8th, 2012  |  by  |  published in Travel

Ally Chiu heads to the Jiangxi coun­try­side for a cousin's wed­ding and reports back from the "real China" beyond the big-city glitz of Shanghai

Self-discovery in Guilin

November 23rd, 2011  |  by  |  published in Travel, zS Blogs

Self-discovery in Guilin

Matt King explores the scenic water­ways and karst peaks of Guilin, catch­ing humor­ous glimpses of him­self as an American abroad through Chinese eyes.

Hostelling in China: Debunking the bed bug myth

September 17th, 2011  |  by  |  published in Travel

Hostelling in China: Debunking the bed bug myth

Just in time for the October hol­i­day break, Charlotte Evans (NYU Shanghai Spring '11) has advice and rec­om­men­da­tions for cheap stays in Xi'an, Yangshuo and Beijing

Lost in the bamboo forest: A weekend in Moganshan

March 30th, 2011  |  by  |  published in Travel

Lost in the bamboo forest: A weekend in Moganshan

Charlotte Evans explores Moganshan, where a tra­di­tional bamboo-based econ­omy faces an uncer­tain future. Can tourism step in with­out ruin­ing its charm?

Escape to Suzhou with Kush Rauhila

March 28th, 2011  |  by  |  published in Travel

Escape to Suzhou with Kush Rauhila

Kush Rauhila explores Suzhou's tea shops, canals, lanes and tem­ples, find­ing a relax­ing escape from the non-stop buzz of Shanghai.

NYU in Shanghai Guilin: Snapshots of life along the Li River

March 26th, 2011  |  by  |  published in Travel

NYU in Shanghai Guilin: Snapshots of life along the Li River

While in Guilin, I took many of my own snap­shots. On the top of my list: an hour on a bam­boo raft float­ing down the Li River to the town of Yangshuo, a mud bath in a cave, and a lunch in a rural vil­lage.

Two days in Xi'an: An ancient capital shines on through smog & modernization

March 22nd, 2011  |  by  |  published in Travel

Two days in Xi'an: An ancient capital shines on through smog & modernization

Don't let the mod­ern city's gritty rep­u­ta­tion deter you. The ancient cap­i­tal is well worth the visit, and for far more than famous Terracotta Warriors.

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