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Zhangjiajie: The Real Floating Mountains That Inspired Avatar

Zhangjiajie: The Real Floating Mountains That Inspired Avatar

wikiHow

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Lijiang — The Most Beautiful Ancient Town Beneath Jade Dragon Snow Mountain

Lijiang — The Most Beautiful Ancient Town Beneath Jade Dragon Snow Mountain

Mộc Âm Music

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Leshan Giant Buddha: The 71-Meter Stone Colossus That Calmed Three Rivers 8:42

Leshan Giant Buddha: The 71-Meter Stone Colossus That Calmed Three Rivers

Institute for Planets

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Three Gorges: The Dam That Reshaped a River and a Civilization 29:41

Three Gorges: The Dam That Reshaped a River and a Civilization

Lifeder

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Jiuzhaigou — The Valley So Beautiful China Made It a National Park Twice 15:22

Jiuzhaigou — The Valley So Beautiful China Made It a National Park Twice

Flora and Note

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Chongqing: The 8D City Where Physics Goes to Die 1:00

Chongqing: The 8D City Where Physics Goes to Die

CoolVision

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The Hanging Temple: A Temple Clinging to a Cliff Face for 1,500 Years 23:09

The Hanging Temple: A Temple Clinging to a Cliff Face for 1,500 Years

Travel East

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Yellow Mountain — The Real-Life Ink Painting You Can Walk Through 18:42

Yellow Mountain — The Real-Life Ink Painting You Can Walk Through

Little Chinese Everywhere

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Secrets of the Great Wall — 20,000 km of Dynasty, Defeat, and Sticky Rice Mortar 50:31

Secrets of the Great Wall — 20,000 km of Dynasty, Defeat, and Sticky Rice Mortar

National Geographic

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Forbidden City — The 9,999-Room Imperial Palace of China's Emperors 48:22

Forbidden City — The 9,999-Room Imperial Palace of China's Emperors

Documentary Hub

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West Lake Hangzhou — Where Chinese Poetry Became Landscape 2:30:59

West Lake Hangzhou — Where Chinese Poetry Became Landscape

Davidsbeenhere

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Fujian Tulou: When 800 People Live Inside One Building 22:18

Fujian Tulou: When 800 People Live Inside One Building

Little Chinese Everywhere

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Suzhou Gardens — How the Chinese Fit the Universe Into a Backyard 2:18

Suzhou Gardens — How the Chinese Fit the Universe Into a Backyard

UNESCO

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Beyond Badaling — The Great Wall You Have Never Seen 44:01

Beyond Badaling — The Great Wall You Have Never Seen

National Geographic Asia

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The Li River: Where Chinese Landscape Painting Comes Alive 46:08

The Li River: Where Chinese Landscape Painting Comes Alive

TRACKS - Travel Documentaries

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Terracotta Warriors — The Emperor Who Tried to Conquer Death 4:59

Terracotta Warriors — The Emperor Who Tried to Conquer Death

TED-Ed

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Dunhuang Mogao Caves — 1,000 Years of Buddhist Art in the Desert 2:45

Dunhuang Mogao Caves — 1,000 Years of Buddhist Art in the Desert

UNESCO

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