Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong, mainland period dramas, viral-variety filming spots — what's still there, what's been demolished.
The green sea where Ang Lee's fighters balanced on bending bamboo is a real ridge in Anji, two hours from Hangzhou — and still a working farm. CN: 在安吉竹海走进《卧虎藏龙》的树梢
The Longest Day in Chang'an built a Tang capital in the hills of coastal Zhejiang. Most of it is still standing, and you can walk its main avenue before the tour groups arrive. CN: 在象山，长安还能走一遍
A nineteenth-century Pearl River waterfront was built from scratch for one 1997 film, then never dismantled. How to read the seams — and reach it. CN: 横店广州街·香港街：为一部电影建的城，没拆
An hour southwest of the Bund, a working backlot keeps 1930s Shanghai in better repair than the city that lived it — façades, a tram, and no one to renovate the lanes away. CN: 车墩：为老上海重建的一条街
Two hours inland from Hangzhou, Hengdian rebuilt a full-scale Forbidden City and a dozen other centuries in concrete. Most days, cameras are still rolling inside them. CN: 横店：为拍摄而生的小镇