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An industrial area near Beijing Capital International Airport, 2011
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Outside Beijing’s Forbidden City, security cameras keep watch, 2011
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Ornate details of Beijing’s Forbidden City, the palace complex and former Chinese imperial palace until 1912, 2011
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A lamp-adorned alleyway in Pingyao, a UNESCO World Heritage Site established in 800BCE and a former Chinese financial hub, 2011
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A vendor selling kites in central Beijing, 2011
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Office signs for sale in a Beijing market, 2011
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The Niuje Mosque serves Beijing’s Hui Muslim minority. Nearly 200,000 Hui live in Beijing, 2011
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Outside the Niuje Mosque, 2011
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Central Beijing, 2011
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China’s imperial court would summer at the Summer Palace, located just outside of Beijing. The compound was established in the 11th century, but the remaining buildings were constructed in the 18th century, 2011
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Buddha statues decorate the Temple of the Sun’s ornate exterior in Beijing’s Summer Palace, 2011
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An artisan folds origami creatures outside the Summer Palace’s Sea of Wisdom Temple, Beijing, 2011
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Pleasure boats motor through the Summer Palace’s sprawling Kunming Lake, 2011
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Opera plays a significant role in Chinese culture. Here, Beijing Temple Theater’s production of Peking Opera includes The Drunken Princess, 2011
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The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall of China, a mostly restored section, 2011
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Terra Cotta Soldiers in Xi’an. Built around 200 BC by the Emperor Qin Shi Huang, more than 700,000 laborers worked 39 years to create an army to protect the Emperor in his afterlife, 2011
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A statue of Confucius in Pingyao’s Confucian temple, 2011
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A train board in Beijing’s West Train Station, the largest railway station in Asia, 2011
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A street scene from Pingyao, 2011
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Xi'an’s Bell Tower was built in 1582 and later restored in 1789, 2011
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Police security on Shanghai’s Nanjing Xi Road on China’s National Day, a weeklong holiday marking the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Shanghai, 2011