Cities

Ji’an, in the hilly center of Jiangxi province, is one of those Chinese cities that wears two distinct stories at once. This Ji’an travel guide is for travelers who want…

Shangqiu rarely appears on first-time China lists, and that is exactly why it is worth a visit. This Shangqiu travel guide is for travelers who like layers of history you…

Most visitors to Henan rush from Zhengzhou to Luoyang and stop there. This Xuchang travel guide makes the case for a stop in between. Xuchang, in central Henan, was the…

Ningde sits along the northeastern coast of Fujian province, a place most foreign visitors rush past on the train between Fuzhou and Wenzhou. That is a real mistake. This Ningde…

This Huaihua travel guide is for travelers who want the minority cultures of western Hunan without the ticket queues of the famous towns. Huaihua, in the southwest of Hunan province,…

This Qujing travel guide is for travelers who enter Yunnan from the east and want a first taste of the province that isn’t already packed with tour buses. Qujing, in…

This Meishan travel guide is for travelers who want a quieter slice of Sichuan — one where a Song-dynasty literary family and a mossy primeval mountain share the same compact…

This Luzhou travel guide is for travelers who like their Chinese cities with a strong local accent — literally. Sitting where the Tuo River meets the Yangtze in southern Sichuan,…

This Yan’an travel guide is for travelers who want to trade China’s flashy eastern megacities for the carved loess hills of northern Shaanxi, where the Yan River bends past cave…

Most China itineraries rush from Beijing to the mountains or the coast, and in doing so they skip a river town that has been quietly important for a thousand years….