NPR's Steve Inskeep visits Shenzhen, a city in southern China, where skyscrapers and urban villages teem with life.

Bryn Williams held up a pig's jawbone, a ceramic jug and a broken bowl with blue flowery swirls that he said was mass-produced more than a century ago in a Chinese factory. The bones and shards, dug ...

In the Yangtze Valley of central China, the water is rising behind one of the world’s largest dams, creating a reservoir that will eventually force more than a million peasants to leave their ...

Once or twice a week, a dozen amateur musicians meet under a highway overpass on the outskirts of Beijing, carting with them drums, cymbals and the collective memory of their destroyed village. They ...

HOUTOUWAN, China – Blanketed with greenery, the ghost town is perched atop cliffs looking west into sea mists obscuring the horizon. Abandoned homes ravaged by weather and creeping vines stand silent ...

One effect of China's massive construction boom is the emptying of its villages as people from rural areas rush to the cities to find new opportunities. A recently-completed project aims to address ...

Nearly fifty years ago, more than 2,000 people called this bucolic Chinese village home. Now only a handful of them remain. Houtouwan clings to the lush green coastline of a tiny island in the Zhousan ...

JIXI, China – At night, the pollution around the village has an otherworldly, almost fairy-tale quality. “The air sparkles,” said Zhang Tuling, a farmer in a village in far northeastern China. “When ...