★From the Four Great Inventions to rare animals, from traditional festivals to modern cities, tell the stories of Chinese cities, technology, myths, festivals, and wild animals with an international visual language.

★Adopt a lively and interesting narrative style to convey environmental protection concepts and multicultural values. Suitable for global young readers to help children cross cultural differences and understand the diverse world.

★When you travel to China, what time will you be in, which city will you be in, what kind of people will you meet, what kind of festivals will you celebrate, and what kind of stories and legends will you hear? Open the book, and as soon as the time - space tunnel is opened, set off!

This series consists of 5 volumes:
"When You Travel to China - City Volume"
"When You Travel to China - Technology Volume"
"When You Travel to China - Festival Volume"
"When You Travel to China - Myth and Legend Volume"
"When You Travel to China - Wildlife and Plants Volume"

This series is a set of cultural popular science books carefully designed for global young readers. Through five theme - clear volumes, it adopts an international visual language and narrative style to let children around the world learn more about multiculturalism in a lively and interesting way.

Hello, hello ~ The mysterious tunnel is about to open. Open the book and travel through time and space with me! This time our landing point is - China!

In the "City Volume", you will see the completely different urban landscapes of ancient and modern times; In the "Technology Volume", you will personally explore the history of the Four Great Inventions and marvel at the wisdom of the ancients; In the "Myth and Legend Volume", you will hear myths and legends different from what you have heard since childhood. It turns out that Chinese gods and monsters are like this; In the "Festival Volume", you will directly feel the interesting and different Chinese festivals and understand another side of Chinese culture; In the "Wildlife and Plants Volume", you will see rare animals and plants such as giant pandas and golden monkeys, which are rarely seen in daily life...

I hope you can marvel during the journey that the world is so colorful and culture is so wonderful and diverse ~

The life of Banpo people ...... 02
Early China in Erlitou ...... 04
The discovery of Yin Ruins in Anyang ...... 06
Baoji in history ...... 08
Fengjing and Haojing ...... 10
Zhou Gong's construction of Luoyang ...... 12
Cities in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods ...... 14
Handan, whose name has not changed for three thousand years ...... 16
Xianyang in the Qin Dynasty ...... 18
Han Chang'an ...... 20
Cities on the Silk Road: Hexi Corridor ...... 22
Xuchang, Chengdu and Nanjing in the Three Kingdoms ...... 24
Chang'an in the Sui and Tang Dynasties ...... 26
Yangzhou in the Sui and Tang Dynasties ...... 28
Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty ...... 30
Hangzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty ...... 32
Dadu of the Yuan Dynasty and Beijing ...... 34
Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty ...... 36
The central axis of Beijing ...... 38

Appendix
Cities through which the Yellow River and the Yangtze River flow
How to build a city
Interesting city names
Test yourself