China's best-known early human, Peking Man, vanished in December 1941 while his fossils from Zhoukoudian, now part of Beijing, were being shipped abroad for safekeeping on the eve of the Pacific War; the original skullcaps have never been seen...
Tianjin is often described as the only ancient Chinese city with a precisely recorded founding date, 23 December 1404, when the Yongle Emperor ordered a garrison and walls built at a river crossing he had once forded while marching...
Few cities carry so many arguments in their skin. Shanghai is one of them. It has been a river city, a port city, a treaty-port city, a revolution city and a money city; at different times, outsiders have praised...
