Travels and Revelations: 23 Essays by Zhang Chengzhi is about cultures which the author knows intimately. With sophisticated sensibility, he describes the tangible cultures of Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang in recent decades — the landscapes and cityscapes, the roads and waterways, the rural and urban dwellings, the working and living habits, and the outstanding symbols and totems. Like a traveller pausing before stunning scenery, he reflects on the intangible cultures that have made the Han, the Hui, the Mongolian and the Uyghur peoples who they are, and contemplates their language usages, socio-political dilemmas, philosophical traditions, beliefs and biases, and religious aspirations. These essays show how deeply Zhang Chengzhi understands modern China's painful evolution through war and revolution and how deeply he is attached to his Hui-Muslim roots, as well as his broad knowledge of cultures transmitted across Eurasia. This is the first English translation of Zhang Chengzhi's essays.