Searching for Scenes From Shanghai's Lost Past
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Merchant and Ivory try filming a period piece in one of the world's most futuristic cities.
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A real-time 3-D computer reconstruction allows visitors to navigate the ancient city as if it were 320 A.D. again.
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For years, tourists in unified Berlin have looked in vain for the Berlin Wall. Tall buildings of glass and steel now rise where it once stood.
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Asia Societyâs glinting and glowing show of pre-Islamic art offers windows onto history, past and present.
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A trove of long-lost iconic images captured by famed war photographer Robert Capa has been recovered and is being examined, cataloged and scanned at the International Center of Photography.
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Travel: Peter Moore goes in search of remnants of Soviet Russia among all Moscow's glitz.
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For first time visitors to China, one of the most stunning entry points is Shanghai. The view from the mouth of the Yangze River, which looks out over Shanghai and other cities,  reveals an incredible urban and industrial panorama, clearly one of the most rapidly developing areas among all the cities of the world.  And yet . . . The Chinese have described themselves as "A plate of scattered sand grains" that would never join or unite with each other.  Piset, in his latest Awakening Dragon column, tells the story of Two Bridges to illustrate just some of the underlying dynamics of China's explosive economic growth.
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The inaugural Shanghai Grand Prix kicked off in magnificent style. On a Hermann Tilke masterpiece of a track, already nicknamed to rhyme with Malaysia&#39;s fine Sepang, The Shang gave Formula One aficionados
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Saving a knife collection and surviving a behind-the-scenes tour of a Chinese airport.
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Photographs of William Howard Taftâs mission to the Far East, now on view at the Nippon Club, were found in an unlikely place.
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Symbols of former mainlanders' past, the villages are being plowed under to accommodate urban growth.
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A trip to a Beijing tech expo offers insights into what's up in desktop media, street-corner DVDs and more.
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Glimpsing the future in Tokyo isn't just about cool gadgets. It's also about seeing a city change -- fast -- as if photographed in time lapse. The city is shockingly unstable.
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Travel: In the first of Benji Lanyado's monthly city-focused blog roundups, we set our sights on the Chinese capital.
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Staged photographs produce some class acts
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China's gleaming skyscrapers and big Olympic plans hide the realities of political oppression. Take the case of Chen Guangcheng
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By Photos by Gary Whitney For the Deseret Morning News  When Gary and Susan Whitney went to China this fall, their brains were overwhelmed with images: Rising water in the Yangtze River Gorge. Pandas lazing about in trees. Temples. Pagodas. Soviet-style apartment buildings.