Cities

This Wuhan travel guide is for foreign visitors who want to look beyond Beijing, Shanghai and Xi’an and discover the energetic heart of central China. Straddling the Yangtze and Han…

This Wuyuan travel guide is built from my own trips through Jiangxi’s northeast corner, where pale-green Hui-style villages sit in seas of yellow rapeseed flowers. If you want a China…

If you want a Chinese city that runs on street food, late nights, and electric energy, this Changsha travel guide is for you. Changsha is the capital of Hunan Province…

I’ll be honest with you: before my first trip to Chengdu in 2014, I thought it was just “that place with the pandas.” I was wrong, and happily so. Chengdu…

Forty years ago there was no city here worth marking on a map — just a scatter of fishing villages along the Pearl River Delta. Today Shenzhen is a metropolis…

Most visitors to northern China build their trip around Beijing and call it a day. They’re missing something. A proper Tianjin travel guide should start with a simple fact: this…

Most travelers flying into China never make it past Beijing and Xi’an. That’s a shame, because about 350 km west of Beijing sits a dusty, underrated city that holds two…

Most Chinese towns wear their history in fragments — a repaired gate here, a rebuilt temple there. Pingyao is different. Step through its south gate and you walk into a…

Some cities wear their history like a badge. Macau, China wears it like a layered coat — Portuguese church bells over a Cantonese street market, neon casino towers rising behind…

The first thing you notice in Lhasa, Tibet, China isn’t a building or a view — it’s the air. Thin, dry, and somehow brighter than anywhere else you’ve stood. At…