Travel Guide

Our China currency money guide opens with a fact that surprises almost everyone on their first trip: the country runs on mobile payments, yet a visitor who arrives with only…

Flying inside China as a foreign visitor is easier than the forums suggest and more particular than the airlines admit, and the gap between the two is where trips go…

China rewards short trips the way few countries do, because the high speed rail network puts a different city within reach in the time it takes to watch a movie….

Mainland China’s rivers run from gentle jade channels between rice paddies to violent gorges that have defeated armies. This China river rafting guide splits the country into the two experiences…

Mainland China is not the obvious digital nomad destination — the internet needs a workaround and the visa is short — but for remote workers who want a change of…

Most first-time visitors to mainland China treat the country like a checklist: Beijing for the wall, Xi’an for the warriors, Shanghai for the skyline, then home. It works, but it…

Traveling as an LGBTQ visitor to mainland China is, for most people, refreshingly uncomplicated — provided you arrive with the right expectations. This China LGBTQ travel guide is not a…

The full moon of the eighth lunar month is the brightest of the year, and across mainland China families step out of their apartments, balance a plate of mooncakes on…

Everyone knows Japan for sakura, but China cherry blossom spots are just as dazzling and far less crowded if you know where to look. I chased the blooms across two…

Before my first trip, a friend told me to “just use Google Maps.” I landed, opened it, and got a spinning wheel of nothing. China runs on its own app…