China’s one-party system allowed the government to take a long-term approach, building public transportation links first and using them as anchors to attract residents, businesses and investment. For ...

Walking through empty streets where laughter once filled the air feels deeply unsettling. These abandoned places tell stories ...

From February to April each year, Kam Thon spends most of her days knee-deep in the waters of the Mekong River by her village ...

Two seemingly contradictory realities co-exist in China: on one hand, Chinese cities are overpopulated, while on the other hand, there are also empty cities and tall skyscrapers almost entirely ...

A Chinese city that failed to attract people has become a sandbox for machines. Ordos, a coal-rich northern Chinese city that never took off after prices crashed in 2012, has attracted more than a ...

China Law Blog has a guest post by Dirk Chilcote who had lived in Zhenzhou for 3 years. He is skeptical of western media's report on China's ghost cities: In my three years living and working in the ...