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Welcome.  King Wong .com focuses on travel and stock pictures of China — its people, landscape, architecture, scenic attractions and historical sites. All pictures are available as stock photos for commercial licensing,  and as fine art prints for display.  You will also find travel informations, travelogues, maps, local arts and crafts of the various destinations that the Chinese people had created and developed during their more than 5,000 years of China's civilization. The China pictures are drawn from an archive of 5,000 hi-res images that are continuously added on regularly.  See list of locations and tourist spots that I had visited. 

北京Beijing

Capital of China. Beijing is easy to travel, and its long history guarantees a host of architectual wonders for picture taking and sight-seeing.

万里长城Wanli Changcheng (Great Wall)

Pictures of the 万里长城Great Wall from the shining 渤海Bohai sea to the eastern sharp mountains and green hills to the loess highlands of central China to the desolate Gobi desert west — 山海关Shanhaiguan (Shanhai Pass) to 古北口Gubeikou to 镇北台Zhenbeitai Tower to 嘉峪关Jiayuguan (Jiayu Pass). The Great Wall drew a defensive line across most of China's northern border, separating the central plains from the steppe north.

安徽Anhui

Home of two great mountains of China - 黄山Huangshan ( Yellow Mountain ) and 九华山Jiuhuashan, two very popular travel destinations. The southern region are also known for its numerous well-preserved villages that date back more than 400 years ago. These picturesque villages are very popular with Chinese artists and photographers.

甘肃Gansu

The mostly loess region is sandwiched by ice-capped mountains on the south and the Gobi desert on the north. It was the most accessible passage used by the fabled 丝绸之路Silk Road camel carnivans to exit the eastern region of China. To travel through this great corridor today is as difficult as it was during the Silk Route Era. But to be here and take pictures of its stunning Martian landscape is incomparable.

河北Hebei

Located on northeast China, Hebei's north is a buffer region with its many strategic sections of the Great Wall. To travel through this mountainous region can be a feat. Nonetheless, people flock here to its Great Wall travel destinations.

湖北Hubei

Home of 武当山Wudang Mountains, source of China's great 功夫Gongfu tradition, and one of the great travel destinations of China.

江苏Jiangsu

Both the 长江Changjiang ( Yangzi River ) and the 运河Great Canal flow to this region, making this region a very trafficked area. Together with the great 太湖Taihu lake and many smaller lakes, this region is the ideal host of some of the most beautiful water towns of China. A fun travel destination for those who enjoy seafood, boat rides and pictures of locals.

内蒙古Neimenggu ( Inner Mongolia )

Deserts and grasslands coexist in this wide northern plain of China. You can hire a horse and travel to its horizon where the endless flat plain crashes with the clouds. Or you can just sit on its sand dunes and take pictures of camels next to the setting sun.

宁夏Ningxia

黄河Huanghe ( Yellow River ) makes a quick pass through this dry region where most of China's 回族Hui ethnic group lives. On its north it is surrounded by the 贺兰山Helan Mountains and the 大漠Gobi Desert; on its south more mountains and the loess highlands. The 万里长城Great Wall runs along its strategic north borders along the edges of mountains and deserts. When you travel here you will be entering a very secluded region, where the rise and fall of the 西夏国Xixia Kingdom reached mythic proportion.

陕西Shaanxi

The loess land of China. China's first emperor built the first empire here, and he also started the endless Great Wall building project. When you travel through this sandy region the emperor's presence can still be felt, especially while you take pictures of his clay army looking back at you. But don't worry, there are more tourists there than the army can handle.

上海Shanghai

Today, the financial center of China as well as one of its cultural centers. Fashion lovers, misfits, intelectuals, dreamers, refugees, outcasts, and outlaws alike rush to Shanghai for its haven and riches. If ou are bored of flying, you may just board a ship up or down or across the Pacific Ocean and get off on its international seaport, which also happens to be the gateway to the great 长江Changjiang River (Yangzi River). You come to Shanghai not for any historical attractions, but rather for the city itself — its interactions of all things good and bad that generate very saleable gossips.

山西Shanxi

Of all the places in China, this luckless region was the home of the wealthiest merchants and the origin of China's great banking institutions. Because of their wealth, splendid compounds, mansions and manors scattered in the whole region, and these has been on many people's list of travel destinations.

新疆Xinjiang

The largest and westernmost region of China, composes mostly of deserts. This hot land is the home of 维吾尔Uygur ethnic people. Ancient mosques, ruins and unusual mountains dotted this sparse region. Travel in this desert land can be slow but its distinctive culture and otherworldly landscape provide many picture opportunities.

诗一二首A peom or two

This section is for poems I like and that I translated with much effort.   A different one will appear every once a while.   The Chinese for this poem comes from " Chinese Poetry: An anthology of major modes and genres" by Wai-Lim Yip. published 1997 by Duke University Press.   In his book, Yip introduces his method of translation in which he structure the English to be syntactically closer to the Chinese original.   My translations here mostly follow his method, but I would deviate from it when the translation feels stiff.   In cases where certain phrases are beyond my knowledge I would use his translations, or where certain lines are too obvious that translations in any other way would appear awkward or forced.   At times I feel certain strings of words are better translated more liberally, so I do so.   See other Chinese poems that I had translated.

绝句二首 — 杜甫(唐朝 618 - 907) 1. 迟日江山丽 春风花草香 泥融飞燕子 沙暖睡鸳鸯
2. 江碧鸟逾白 山青花欲燃 今春看又过 何日是归年

Two Poems — Tu Fu(Tang dynasty 618 - 907) 1. Late sun: the beauty of rivers and mountains; Spring winds: the fragrance of flowers and grass. As the soil thaws, the swallows fly; On the warm sand, the mandarin duck sleeps.
2. Above the jade river, the birds are extra bright; On the emerald mountains, the flowers seem like flames. Look! This spring again passes. Which day and year is homecoming?