Many of these ancient homes, especially in the Shanzhou district of Sanmenxia City in China's Henan province ... in which privileged youth were sent to rural areas to experience peasant life.

The research addresses the tendency toward vernacular obsolescence in rural China by identifying unique cases of previously ... these self-builders have developed intelligent solutions for updating ...

In documenting northern China’s Shehuo festival, Zhang Xiao shines a light on disappearing rural traditions and the threat e-commerce poses to traditional crafts.

Bishan village with its many late Qing-dynasty vernacular houses might be considered a heritage village ... a useful lens in giving Western society a glimpse of contemporary rural life in China?

TAIPEI--China is accelerating the forced ... More than 3 million of the more than 4.5 million Tibetans in rural areas have been forced to build homes and give up their traditional nomadic ...

Critics say that for China to choose urban and industrial investment over welfare programmes for its low-income rural population would present it with long-term growth risks greater than the short ...