Most visitors arrive in Guangzhou expecting dim sum and skyscrapers, and they get both, but the building that best explains how this southern trading city actually thinks is Chen Clan…
When people plan a trip around the Yangtze middle reaches, the obvious draws are the river and the famous towers, but the quiet gem that locals in Hubei actually treasure…
If you visit only one Buddhist site in China, make it the White Horse Temple (白马寺, Baima Si) on the eastern edge of Luoyang. Tradition holds that it is the…
Most theme parks recreate fantasy worlds. Millennium City Park in Kaifeng (清明上河园, Qingming Shanghe Yuan) does something rarer: it rebuilds a real moment in history. The park is a living…
Of all the ancient sites we have helped travelers plan in China, the Confucius Temple in Qufu (孔庙) is the one that most reliably silences first-time visitors. It is not…
When people ask us for an off-the-radar stop in Heilongjiang, we often point them past the obvious winter capitals toward the southeast corner of the province. Jixi (鸡西) rarely appears…
Most travelers who plan a trip to China’s far northeast think first of Harbin’s ice sculptures or the Arctic light at Mohe. We used to think the same way until…
Most travelers have never considered Daqing as a stop, but a Daqing travel guide should argue that this is exactly why it is interesting. Daqing (大庆) is the city that…
If you draw a line to the eastern edge of China’s Northeast, it runs straight through Jiamusi. A Jiamusi travel guide should start there, because this city in eastern Heilongjiang…
Most visitors to Jilin Province rush between Changchun and the mountain resorts, never noticing the city where the Songhua River bends wide and slow across the northern plain. A Songyuan…