Link: Xi'an Splendors - The China Blog - TIME.
Visiting China’s ancient capital of Xi’an for the first time I am reminded that however much you read and hear about a place the reality is always far different. Having spent quite a while researching a novel that was set in part in Chang’an, as the city was called in the Tang dynasty, I assumed that I knew something about what was once (ok. 1200 years ago) the world largest and most sophisticated metropolis. But Xi’an is a wonderful surprise
