A gruelling mountain ride to a massive reservoir and hydro dam that marks a major bend in the Yellow River

The edge of the Tibetan plateau, where Muslim and Tibetan communities intermingle around the birthplace of the Dalai Lama

Where else will you find a fake German town in a balmy sub tropical resort just a few miles from a vicious SE Asia civil war?

In the flatlands of Inner Mongolia

In 1926 the botanist travelled into remote Ngolok Tibetan nomad territory in the grassland hills of Qinghai

Colourised photos document the destruction of the heart of Tibetan religion and culture.

Wilbur Cummings and Bailey Vanderhoef took a Leica camera to Tibet just before WW2 (these images are AI colourised from B&W)

In 1949 Swiss missionary priest Maurice Tornay was killed on the Yunnan-Tibet border by lamas who were staunchly opposed to incursions by a foreign religion

A sample of the 1400 photos taken by Joel Eriksson of the Swedish Mission near Baotou

The east coast of China was once a safari park for western tiger hunters. The PLA doubled down and hunted the South China tiger to extinction.

The 1938 German expedition to Tibet was linked to a ‘racial improvement’ organisation whose modern day successors are championed by tech oligarchs.

The final instalment of an epic 1923 journey across China from south to north.

Dr Hubert Gordon Thompson continues solo from Ganze to Tangke, the first bend of the Yellow River

When the Long March split into two groups in 1935, one group of troops commanded by Mao’s arch rival Zhang Guotao marched west into oblivion. Did Mao want it that way?