This detail from Fuller’s map shows the area around the Forbidden City, the ancient Chinese palace complex in central Beijing. The design at the very center combines a starlike Western compass ...

The first of China’s four great ancient capitals (the other ... was once again propelled onto the international map. Three decades later, the city has become a major hub for software and service ...

Outside the ancient walled city of Pingyao in northern China ... The city put itself on the map in the 19th century as China's financial center. Banks flourished as Shanxi merchants expanded their ...

Dunhuang, ancient Shazhou — City of Sands — was ... An earlier version of the map accompanying this article reversed the placement of two Chinese cities; Tianshui is east of Zhangye, not ...

an enormous fortified city dating back to a medieval empire. He and his team would spend nearly a decade trying to map out the site, as well as the one he’d originally come to Uzbekistan to ...