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Modern China

High-speed rail, city life, design, technology, and contemporary travel context.

Sleek glass boutique facades sit adjacent to the traditional red brick walls and curved eaves of Daci Temple.
modern / Chengdu

Glass Towers and Incense Smoke: Taikoo Li vs. Daci Temple

How a masterfully designed open-air shopping district built around a 1,600-year-old Buddhist sanctuary created Chengdu's most spectacular modern urban paradox.

7 min readSeries 09

China by Road is an editorial travel journal for curious outsiders: grounded in place, attentive to culture, and practical without flattening the country into a checklist.

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