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Taiyuan is the gateway most travelers sleep in without meaning to — they fly or train in to see the real prize, which is Shanxi’s absurd density of old towns,…

Nanchang doesn’t always make the front page of China travel lists, but we’ve sent plenty of travelers through Jiangxi’s capital and almost all of them underestimate it. It’s a real…

Weihai sits at the far eastern tip of the Shandong Peninsula, a compact, remarkably clean city that routinely tops China’s air-quality rankings and has quietly become one of the most…

Jinan calls itself the “Spring City” (Quancheng), and the nickname is literal: more than seventy named artesian springs bubble up through the urban core, feeding the moat, the canals, and…

Wuxi is the Jiangsu city that sits on the northern shore of Taihu, China’s third-largest freshwater lake, and in our experience it is the easiest place in the Yangtze Delta…

Shaoxing is the water town that many travelers read about in Lu Xun’s stories before they ever buy a ticket to China. In our experience it is also the most…

Ningbo is one of those Chinese cities that business travelers know well and leisure visitors often skip — a mistake, in our view. This Zhejiang port city stacks a tidy…

Fuzhou rarely tops the typical China itinerary, yet in our experience travelers who add a night or two here are rewarded with a slower, more local side of Fujian. As…

Quanzhou is the Fujian city that keeps surprising people. For centuries it was “Zayton,” one of the great ports of the maritime Silk Road, where Arab, Persian, Indian, and Southeast…