The China Map

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Expert-led sustainable travel across remote China, from silk-road caravans to village homestays.

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The most iconic contemporary Peking duck experience, with a crisp skin that snaps like glass.

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Hands-on cooking classes and cultural workshops in a restored courtyard near the Drum Tower.

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A private wing of the Summer Palace where Ming dynasty courtyards become a world-class spa retreat.

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Beijing's favorite roast duck with the best seat in town: a window table overlooking the Forbidden City moat.

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Dine inside a Qing prince's mansion where staff bow in court costume and address you as 'Your Highness'.

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Modern European fine dining inside a converted Ming dynasty temple - one of Beijing's great rooms.

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Beijing's sprawling weekend flea market: jade, calligraphy, Mao memorabilia, and everything in between.

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Beijing's most trusted private tour operator: historians, drivers, and itineraries built around you.

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Beijing's best food tours: back-alley noodle shops, dumpling joints, and the stories behind them.

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Professional photography tours of China's most photogenic places - including the Great Wall at dawn.

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White-glove, fully private travel in China - from Forbidden City lunches to convoyed transfers.

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China's most famous pharmacy - a 350-year-old TCM institution offering consultations, massage, and remedies.

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A kilometer of tea shops where Beijing's tea trade happens - sample, bargain, and ship home the good stuff.

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Beijing's street of antiques, calligraphy, and old books - where the city's literati have shopped for 400 years.

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The Ming emperor's prayer hall - a blue-tiled masterpiece, one of the most photographed sights in China.

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A Michelin-starred vegetarian tasting menu that treats vegetables with the gravity of a tasting menu.

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Fifty independent galleries inside a former textile mill, where Shanghai's contemporary art scene lives.

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One of Asia's best hotel spas, with treatment rooms looking straight at the Bund skyline.

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Yunnan's spice, smoke, and ritual in a dark-wood French Concession mansion that feels like a film set.

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A living maze of shikumen lanes packed with studios, tiny galleries, and cafes - Shanghai's bohemian heart.

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Shanghai's liveliest morning: tai chi under the plane trees, then ballroom tango on the terrace.

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The world's oldest jazz band - average age over 80 - playing swing in a 1929 Art Deco lobby.

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Shanghai's acclaimed food tours: soup dumplings at dawn, night markets, and kitchens most tourists never find.

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Shanghai's top-rated food tours - street-food classics by day, late-night runs and breweries after dark.

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China's most trusted private tour operator - tailor-made Shanghai days, from Yuyuan Garden to Tongli water town.

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The Hermes-backed Chinese luxury house - furniture, ceramics, and clothing that revive imperial craft.

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A 280-year-old Shanghai TCM brand - herbal clinics, tuina massage, and remedies that locals swear by.

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A spa above the Huangpu River with treatments built around traditional Chinese healing.

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A century-old institution serving the definitive Xi'an lamb paomo - bread torn, broth poured.

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Eight thousand life-sized warriors frozen in battle formation - the greatest archaeological site in China.

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Reliable private tours of the Terracotta Warriors and beyond, with English-speaking guides who actually know the stories.

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A 1,300-year-old mosque built entirely in Chinese courtyard style - one of the world's great cultural fusions.

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Ride the full 14km circuit on top of Xi'an's Ming dynasty city wall as the sky turns amber.

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Chef Yu Bo's Michelin-starred private kitchen, where Sichuan spice becomes haute cuisine.

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See dozens of giant pandas up close - including cubs - in a bamboo forest research base.

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A century-old open-air teahouse in People's Park where Chengdu's famous leisure culture comes alive.

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A full vegetarian banquet inside a working Buddhist monastery's own kitchen.

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Chengdu's beloved evening of Sichuan opera, puppetry, and the legendary face-changing act.

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Chengdu-based custom tours across China - pandas, Sichuan, Tibet, and everything in between.

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Three restored Qing lanes of teahouses, craft shops, and courtyard bars - Chengdu's most charming shopping street.

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Michelin-starred Zhejiang cuisine in a lakeside garden pavilion at the Four Seasons.

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A village of restored stone houses in a tea valley, minutes from the Lingyin Temple.

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Walk the terraced Longjing tea fields, then drink this season's harvest in a village farmhouse.

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One of China's great Buddhist temples, wrapped in mist and carved-rock grottoes at the foot of Feilai Peak.

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The lakeside restaurant that has served West Lake's signature dishes since 1848.

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Private Hangzhou days - West Lake by boat, Longjing tea country, and the Song Dynasty Town - run by a local studio.

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The 1874 TCM hall called 'the Southern Tong Ren Tang' - diagnosis, herbs, and tuina in a Qing courtyard.

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China's most successful designer fashion house - understated, textured, and unmistakably Chinese.

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China's silk trade since the Song dynasty - scarves, robes, and bedding by the bolt.

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A kilometer of seafood restaurants overlooking Yantian harbor, where you pick your catch live from the tanks.

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A village where thousands of painters hand-copy and reimagine every masterpiece in history.

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The world's electronics bazaar: eight blocks of components, gadgets, and tech you cannot find anywhere else.

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The V&A's Chinese outpost in Shekou - design galleries stacked in Pritzker-winner Maki's concrete terraces.

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A 13km coastal boardwalk with the Hong Kong skyline on the horizon - Shenzhen's best free therapy.

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Shenzhen's tech future, up close: robotaxi rides, drone deliveries, EV showrooms, and Huaqiangbei with an English-speaking local.

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Chongqing's most-loved hotpot: a bubbling cauldron of numbing spice that defines the city.

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A cliff of glowing stilted houses that has become Chongqing's most photographed night view.

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The commuter cable car locals still ride across the Yangtze - now a front-row seat over the city.

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A light rail that passes straight through an apartment block - the world's most famous train station.

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Soak in hillside pools above the river in the hot spring town that predates Chongqing's skyscrapers.

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Chongqing with a team of local guides - private city days, neon night tours, and the food locals actually eat.

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A 140-year-old Cantonese institution where dim sum is still a morning ritual.

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The finest example of Lingnan architecture in existence - a shrine wrapped in ten thousand carvings.

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A leafy island of colonial mansions where Guangzhou's treaty-port past is preserved in amber.

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Guangdong's classic hot spring getaway, an hour into the hills behind Guangzhou.

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A 1947 garden restaurant on Liwan Lake, its pavilions floating over lotus and goldfish.

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Guangzhou's Liwan quarter by appetite: half-day food walks with local Cantonese guides.

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The city's legendary dried-seafood and wholesale street - a kilometer of gold-dusted hams and century eggs.

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A 1925 Russian restaurant that tastes like Harbin's story: China's old Russian quarter, plated.

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A city built entirely of ice: 500,000 cubic meters of sculpted frozen architecture, lit like a dream.

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The green-domed Russian cathedral that has become Harbin's skyline signature.

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Thin pancakes rolled around Dongbei's hearty fillings - the north's answer to the burrito.

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Harbin's boldest tradition: locals plunging into a hole cut in the frozen Songhua River.

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Harbin's ice-and-snow specialists - the festival timed right, Snow Town and Mohe included, gear and driver sorted.

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An American-run heritage compound in Xizhou that turns China's countryside into a classroom.

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The classic Dali ritual: a day-long cycle around a lake ringed by Cangshan mountains.

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Three thousand-year-old pagodas in front of Cangshan's peaks - the most iconic silhouette in Yunnan.

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Learn Bai tie-dye in the village where it has been made for 300 years - and take your own pattern home.

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Ride to the top of the Cangshan range for pine forests, mountain air, and Erhai laid out below.

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The region's best cycling outfit - day rides around Erhai and multi-day Yunnan loops on proper bikes.

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The century-old home of guoqiao mixian: Yunnan's famous crossing-the-bridge rice noodles.

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A forest of 270-million-year-old limestone pillars - one of China's first UNESCO World Heritage sites.

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Asia's largest flower market, where trains of roses and lilies move through the night like cargo.

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Kunming's oldest temple, built around a tranquil lake with a pavilion at its heart.

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Every winter, 10,000 Siberian gulls winter in Kunming's Green Lake - and the park becomes a feeding frenzy.

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Buy it live, cook it your way: Sanya's legendary seafood market-and-dinner ritual.

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A coral-fringed island off Sanya where the water is clear enough to see the fish from the boat.

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Sanya's classic beach: 7km of white sand and palm-backed water, the postcard Hainan coast.

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A 108-meter Guanyin statue rising from the sea - one of the tallest statues on earth.

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The literal 'end of the earth': the seaside rocks where Chinese poetry goes to finish.

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Sanya's long-running local operator - island day trips, diving, sailing, and golf, with no tourist shopping stops.

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A lively recreation of an old Nanjing tea house, serving Jiangsu classics to packed crowds.

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The grand marble memorial to modern China's founding father, set against a forested mountain.

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The tomb of the Ming dynasty's founder, guarded by a spirit path of stone elephants and camels.

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Glide past lantern-lit pavilions on the river that made Nanjing famous - the city's classic night out.

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The 1866 delicatessen that made Nanjing salted duck a national obsession.

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The imperial hot springs of Nanjing's Tangshan - soaking since the Ming dynasty, an hour from the city.

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The masterpiece of Chinese garden design - water, rock, and pavilions composed like a landscape painting.

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A Suzhou institution since 1757, home of the legendary squirrel-shaped mandarin fish.

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I.M. Pei's final masterpiece: a museum of white walls, black lines, and stones borrowed from the gardens.

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Hear China's oldest opera in the city that gave it birth - 600 years of melody in a garden hall.

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A Suzhou restaurant so old it predates the Qing dynasty - 450 years of Jiangsu cooking.

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Suzhou's top-rated English guide service - classical gardens at opening time, canals by boat, water towns by train.

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The double-sided silk embroidery that astonishes even connoisseurs - watch masters work, then buy.

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China's beer story told inside a working 1903 brewery - ending, of course, with a fresh pour.

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Eight tree-lined avenues of colonial villas, ending at the most relaxing beach stroll in China.

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Qingdao's 1892 pier and octagonal pavilion, extending into the Yellow Sea like a finger pointing at history.

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The sacred Taoist mountain that rises straight out of the Yellow Sea, its peaks wrapped in legend.

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Qingdao's beer-and-seafood street: shellfish by the kilo, washed down with draught straight from the brewery.

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Licensed English-speaking private guides for Qingdao - brewery history, German villas, and Laoshan, on your schedule.

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Tianjin's most famous steamed buns - eighteen folds per bun, and a story to match.

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The largest intact colonial district in China - 2,000 villas on tree-lined lanes.

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The ferris wheel built on a bridge over the Hai River - a 120-meter rotation above old Tianjin.

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Tianjin is the home of xiangsheng, China's stand-up comedy - and the teahouse is its cathedral.

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The famously twisted fried dough of Tianjin - a snack so iconic it has its own street name.

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Tianjin with a certified local guide - Huangyaguan Great Wall, city walks, and food tours, priced in the open.

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A car-free island of colonial villas, piano museums, and winding lanes - Xiamen's UNESCO gem.

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A fishing village turned into Xiamen's most electric food street, steps from the beach.

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A thousand-year temple at the foot of Wulao Peak, with the sea behind and incense always rising.

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Xiamen's old fishing port reborn as a waterfront of studios, cafes, and sunset balconies.

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Cycle Xiamen's coastal ring road - 43km of sea views, beaches, and the island's best air.

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Xiamen's local specialist for the two big days out - Gulangyu Island and the Fujian Tulou roundhouses.

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The quartzite pillars that inspired Avatar - one of the most surreal landscapes on earth.

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A 7.5km cable car to a mountain with a hole punched through it - and a glass skywalk along the edge.

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The world's longest glass bridge - 430 meters suspended over a 300-meter canyon drop.

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A jade lake in a green amphitheater, crossed by singing boats in the morning mist.

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Zhangjiajie's famous 'three-pot' - a bubbling cauldron of pork, tofu, and vegetables, the Tujia way.

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The classic 80km cruise through the karst peaks that appear on the 20-yuan note.

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Guilin's most-loved roast goose - lacquered skin, sweet dipping sauce, and a dining room always full.

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The Dragon's Backbone: rice terraces carved into mountainsides for 700 years, glowing gold at sunrise.

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A 240-million-year-old cave of stone forests and grottoes, lit like a cathedral of light.

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Drift down the Yulong River on a bamboo raft, past water buffalo and the quietest karst in Guilin.

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A licensed Yangshuo guide with 20+ years on the karst - Li River, Longji terraces, and a village family meal.

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The long-running Tibet specialist for first-timers: group departures, flexible dates, and permits done right.

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Small-group Tibet journeys with Tibetan guides and a focus on culture over checklist.

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The 1,300-year-old fortress palace that is Tibet's spiritual and architectural summit.

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The Xinjiang specialist run by a longtime expat: Kashgar, the Karakoram, and the Silk Road's far end.

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The legendary market of the Silk Road's far end: carpets, knives, spices, and a thousand years of trade.

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China's largest mosque, at the heart of Kashgar's old town since 1442.

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Tengchong's 'sea of heat': volcanic pools, steaming riverbeds, and egg-cooking vents.

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The jade capital of the frontier: rough stones, carved pendants, and the gamble that made dynasties.

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Jingdezhen's kiln-city turned creative quarter: studios, galleries, and porcelain that pushes the craft forward.

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A thousand years of ceramic trade under one roof: from 10-yuan cups to imperial replicas.

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Watch porcelain being made exactly as it was under the Song dynasty, in a working imperial kiln.

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The Cantonese private kitchen that put Shunde on the culinary map: slow-cooked, double-boiled, and unapologetically luxurious.

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One of China's great Tang-era temples, its twin stone pagodas guarding a thousand years of maritime trade.

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The fishing village where women wear living gardens on their heads - and visitors are welcome to join.

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The dish that defines Quanzhou: duck braised with a mountain of ginger in a clay pot until it falls apart.

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The largest wholesale market on earth: 75,000 booths selling everything that can be manufactured, in bulk.

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A Ming-era canal town where Yiwu's traders built their mansions - half a day of quiet lanes and river life.

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Thousands of red monastic houses climbing a valley wall - the most astonishing Tibetan Buddhist settlement on earth.

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The 'last pure land on earth': three sacred peaks and turquoise lakes at 4,000 meters.

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Rolling yak pasture with the holy Yala Snow Mountain on the horizon - the classic Kham landscape.

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A 100-kilometer karst canyon with a skywalk over the abyss - Hubei's great outdoors showpiece.

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The reconstructed fortress of Enshi's Tujia chieftains - nine floors of carved timber and ethnic history.

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The rare steam-fixed green tea of Enshi - China's oldest technique, still made in the mountain villages.

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The tulou roundhouses of the Zhangzhou hills, set around a lantern-lit canal town.

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Zhangzhou's answer to the beach: a rugged island of seafood, sand, and the 'wind-moving stone'.

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A thousand-year city of stone gates, arcade streets, and snacks that never left.

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China's oldest surviving library, built in 1561 - a scholar's garden of books, ponds, and quiet.

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Ningbo's great lake - 45km of shoreline, cycling paths, and the fish that made the city's cuisine.

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The Bund that predates Shanghai's - a century of waterfront, now Ningbo's best dinner address.

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One of the world's great Buddhist cave complexes - 51,000 statues carved into a sandstone cliff.

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A temple bolted to a cliff face for 1,500 years - gravity-defying, literally.

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The world's oldest and tallest wooden building - a 67-meter pagoda that has stood without a single nail since 1056.

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The Hani people's 1,300-year staircase to the sky - the most extraordinary terraces on earth.

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Sleep inside the terraces: a mushroom-roofed Hani village, a dawn walk along the rice walls.

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The 'Little Potala' - a golden-roofed monastery complex on a hill above Shangri-La.

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Shangri-La's Tibetan old town, centered on the world's largest prayer wheel.

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One of the world's great treks: two days along a gorge where the Jinsha River fights its way through the mountains.

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The rainbow mountains: striped cliffs of mineral color that look painted by a god with a grudge against minimalism.

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A thousand years of cliff-carved temples, including the 33-tier sky cave that climbs inside the rock.

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A 34-meter reclining Buddha inside a temple that has guarded the Silk Road since 1098.

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The largest transborder waterfall in Asia, tumbling over the China-Vietnam border.

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Guangxi's quiet answer to Yangshuo: karst peaks reflected in rice paddies, seen by bike.

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Track one of the world's rarest primates - the white-headed langur, found nowhere else on earth.

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A thousand years of Buddhist art carved into a desert cliff - the greatest cave complex on the Silk Road.

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Singing sand dunes frame a crescent-shaped spring that has survived a thousand years of desert.

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The Silk Road done right since 2004 - timed Mogao tickets, desert dunes, and classic Xi'an-to-Kashgar itineraries.

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Dunhuang's signature dish: hand-pulled yellow noodles under slow-braised donkey meat and a garlicky sauce.

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Mineral hot springs at the desert's edge, with TCM massage to undo a day of dunes and dust.

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Dunhuang's night bazaar: luminous cups, dried apricots, camel toys, and silk-road trinkets.

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The MICHELIN-starred Peking duck that changed the rules: lean birds, glassy skin, and a serious wine list.

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Beijing's most famous teahouse: opera, acrobatics, and face-changing acts with a cup of jasmine tea.

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A modern traditional Chinese medicine clinic by the Forbidden City, with English-speaking doctors and direct international insurance billing.

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Shanghai's 'No. 1 Teahouse', perched on the Nine Zigzag Bridge in Yu Garden since 1784 - a tea ceremony and a time machine.

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A Japanese-style hot spring bathhouse in Pudong: mineral baths, saunas, and a buffet - the bathhouse experience TikTok discovered.

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Shanghai's heritage qipao house since 1936, on the old-brand street where the Soong sisters once shopped.

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The legendary Shanghainese bespoke tailor on Maoming Road - three fittings, hand-cut suits, and a worldwide trunk-show circuit.

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Sichuan opera face-changing at your table, served alongside proper Chengdu hotpot in Jinli.

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Shanghai's favorite English-friendly massage chain: seven branches, proper foot reflexology, and a menu in English.

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English-taught cooking classes, calligraphy workshops, and wet-market tours on Huaihai Road.

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Beijing's Michelin three-star vegetarian temple, tucked into a courtyard off Wudaoying Hutong.

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Shenyang's 100,000-square-meter hot spring palace - the Northeast bathhouse experience at its most extreme.

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A Xi'an hanfu studio that dresses you head to toe in Tang-dynasty silk, hair and makeup included, then sends you out to the lanterns.

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The nine-story Tang pagoda that became the symbol of revolutionary Yan'an, glowing gold above the river at night.

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Xiaotangshan's most established hot-spring resort, where Beijingers go to soak, swim, and unplug for a weekend.

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A sprawling hot-spring and spa estate in the Xiaotangshan valley, famous for its outdoor pools in the winter cold.

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Hot springs, water slides, and spa cabins under one roof - the most playful bathhouse complex in the capital.

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A rambling courtyard restaurant near the Lama Temple serving refined Beijing classics with old-school flair.

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A Michelin-starred reimagining of Beijing cuisine, plating heritage flavors with the drama of modern gastronomy.

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Beijing's definitive Shandong fine-dining house, where the cuisine that once fed the imperial court is served with quiet luxury.

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A Michelin-recognized chef's table in a restored hutong courtyard, serving quietly radical modern Chinese cooking.

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A candle-lit hutong school near the Lama Temple running cooking, kung fu, calligraphy, and tea workshops for foreigners.

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The 350-year-old temple of Chinese art supplies on Liulichang, where masters buy their brushes, ink, and paper.

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The story of a boy's path to kung fu mastery, told with a cast of 40 martial artists - no language needed.

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Beijing's most energetic crosstalk comedy club, packing a 200-year-old art form into sold-out nightly shows.

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The 1853 shoemaker that fitted the Qing court, still hand-making velvet boots and embroidered slippers today.

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The 1862 silk emporium that dressed the last empress, with bolts of brocade and made-to-measure qipao.

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Watch cloisonné being made by hand - wire by wire, color by color - then shop the factory's own showroom.

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The 1865 ink house on Liulichang whose sticks and liquid ink have filled the brushes of China's greatest painters.

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Liulichang's master brush-maker, hand-binding weasel-hair brushes in a workshop older than most museums.

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Shanghai's most Instagrammed bathhouse: all-day soaking, free fruit, streaming screens, and design-savvy lounges.

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A clean, Japanese-style hot-spring bathhouse in Pudong, beloved by local families for its spa-grade water.

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Shanghai's most luxurious bathhouse - a marble palace of private hot-spring rooms, spa treatments, and late-night dining.

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A modern, English-friendly traditional Chinese medicine clinic where acupuncture, tuina, and herbal therapy meet hospital-grade care.

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A Michelin-starred temple of Ningbo coastal cuisine, where seafood arrives from the East China Sea that morning.

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Michelin-starred Fujian cuisine with a front-row view of the Bund, serving the delicate seafood cooking of southern China.

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Two-Michelin-star Shanghainese cuisine in a 1930s garden villa - the most romantic dinner table in the city.

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A Michelin-listed Shanghainese institution in a French-concession lane house, beloved for its crab and eel dishes.

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A two-Michelin-star private dining villa on Yuyuan Road, serving seasonal Shanghainese tasting menus in a mansion setting.

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A Michelin-starred Shanghainese dining room that packs in three generations of locals for crab, eel, and red-braised pork.

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Shanghai's 120-year-old house of brushes and ink, where painters buy their tools and collectors bid on masters.

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A garden-calm teahouse chain in leafy Shanghai neighborhoods, where tea is brewed properly and time slows down.

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A leafy French-concession villa devoted to aged pu'er tea, with vintages poured in drawing-room luxury.

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Shanghai's leading modern qipao atelier, cutting made-to-measure dresses that have graced runways and red carpets.

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A polished Cantonese dining room beloved by Shanghai's business elite, famous for its roast meats and dim sum.

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A 370-year-old TCM pharmacy on Hefang Street that still grinds herbs, still sees patients, and still feels alive.

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An elegant restaurant folded into the osmanthus groves of Manjuelong, serving refined Hangzhou cuisine with tea ceremony grace.

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The lakeside dining room that made Hangzhou cuisine famous again, home of the legendary layered pork with lotus leaf.

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A teahouse built over the water of West Lake, pouring Longjing among lotus flowers and visiting egrets.

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Hangzhou's grand old teahouse, where locals spend entire afternoons over tea, mahjong, and plate after plate of snacks.

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The 1663 scissor maker whose blades outlived four dynasties, still forged, sharpened, and sold on Hefang Street.

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A 150-year-old workshop of hand-painted silk and sandalwood fans, the kind that appear in imperial dramas.

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A palace of hammered copper on Hefang Street - the 'Jiangnan Copper House' - where sculpture, teapots, and tableware glow.

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A mountain hot-spring valley an hour from Chengdu, where snow-capped peaks frame the outdoor pools in winter.

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Chengdu's most theatrical fine-dining room, where Sichuan cuisine is served as a three-hour performance.

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A glass dining room over the Hejiang Pavilion, plating contemporary Sichuan with the river flowing beneath your table.

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A family-run private kitchen serving the refined Sichuan recipes of three generations of chefs.

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A Michelin-recognized Sichuan kitchen in Taikoo Li, modernizing classics without losing their fire.

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A grand old Chengdu teahouse where Sichuan opera, tea, and ear-cleaning all happen at the same table.

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Watch 2,000-year-old Sichuan brocade looms still clacking in Chengdu, then shop the weavers' own showroom.

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The state workshop behind Chengdu's museum-grade lacquerware, where artisans carve and polish pieces for decades.

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A Michelin-starred Cantonese dining room famous for its sizzling crispy fish - a sound and a taste of Guangzhou.

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The riverside dining room of the White Swan Hotel, where Guangzhou's most legendary dim sum is served in colonial calm.

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A Michelin-listed private kitchen in the alleys of Xiguan, cooking the old Cantonese recipes of Guangzhou's merchant families.

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Chongqing's biggest urban hot-spring resort, a walled city of pools, spa rooms, and waterfall terraces.

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Hot springs beneath karst cliffs an hour from Chongqing, where pools steam against ancient rock formations.

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A grand re-creation of a Republican-era mansion, serving serious Sichuan plates amid gangster-era glamour.

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The hotpot house that made knife-cut 'big knife' tripe famous, with a broth that locals rank among the city's best.

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The Chongqing hotpot from the documentary series that introduced the genre to the world, still run with family pride.

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The best-known resort in Nanjing's famous Tangshan hot-spring town, where emperors once bathed and golfers now retreat.

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A Republic-era mansion serving refined Huaiyang cuisine, where every room looks like a 1920s state banquet.

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Nanjing's oldest restaurant - a halal kitchen founded in 1845, still serving the city's signature salted duck and river shrimp.

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The Jinling Hotel's storied Chinese dining room, where Huaiyang cuisine is served with white-glove ceremony.

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The museum of yunjin - the 'cloud brocade' so fine two weavers had to work one loom - with weavers at work and silk for sale.

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The courtyard restaurant beside the Humble Administrator's Garden, serving Suzhou's sweetest classics with local ceremony.

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A 160-year-old teahouse on Guanqian Street where Suzhou's business has quietly been done over pots of Biluochun.

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Two centuries of Suzhou pingtan - sung storytelling with pipa and sanxian - performed nightly in a historic book house.

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A 1857 silk merchant's shop on Guanqian Street, still trading in the brocade and satin that made Suzhou famous.

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A modern hot-spring resort on Tianjin's edge, with water parks, spa floors, and family-friendly packages.

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The definitive Tianjin restaurant - a century-old kitchen serving the city's savory pancakes, river fish, and eight-treasure dishes.

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The teahouse where Tianjin's crosstalk comedians have trained for decades - nightly comedy in a room that laughs with you.

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The 180-year-old studio of painted clay figurines that made Tianjin's Ancient Culture Street famous.

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The woodblock workshop behind China's most famous New Year paintings, where the prints of old China are still carved and colored.

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The 'first hot spring under heaven' - a title granted by travelers a millennium ago - in the pine hills near Kunming.

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A luxury lakeside spa on Yangzong Lake where every treatment room looks out on the water - China's most pampered hot spring.

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Kunming's steam-pot chicken institution, simmering Yunnan's signature dish in a courtyard restaurant since the 1850s.

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A Yunnan 'seal house' courtyard restaurant serving wild mushrooms, flower dishes, and the province's tribal kitchens.

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Choreographer Yang Liping's tribal dance epic, performed nightly with drumming, bronze masks, and 70 dancers from Yunnan's villages.

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A polished Shaanxi kitchen in old Xi'an, serving the region's classics in a dining room built like a Tang-dynasty market.

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Xi'an's most theatrical dining experience - a Tang-dynasty fantasy of noodle acrobatics, imperial snacks, and live opera.

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China's most famous outdoor show - ten thousand spectators, a mountain for a stage, and the empire's greatest love story.

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A seaside hot-spring resort north of Qingdao, where ocean air meets mineral pools and European-style villas.

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Sanya's classic palm-fringed hot spring, where mineral pools hide among tropical gardens and coconut trees.

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Xiamen's biggest hot-spring resort, minutes from the sea, with tropical pools, spa treatments, and family water play.

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The Min Nan restaurant that made Xiamen food famous to a new generation, with seafood, sha cha, and river eel done right.

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A warehouse-sized time capsule of vintage Chinese objects, where 1950s radios and brass teapots share shelves with a great café.

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Shenyang's favorite winter escape - outdoor mineral pools that steam gloriously when the temperature drops below minus twenty.

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The century-old Liaoning restaurant where Manchu banquet dishes and the region's smoky, rich cooking live on.

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The most famous private kitchen in Shunde - 'Pork Lady's' family dining room, where Cantonese cooking reaches its peak.

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The Ming-era restaurant of Datong's old city, famous for flower-shaped shumai and the story of its emperor-hungry founder.

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The Harbin kitchen that invented guobaorou - the crispy sweet-sour pork every northeastern family claims - still run with century-old recipes.

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A lakeside hot-spring resort on Ningbo's Dongqian Lake, where mineral pools look out over Zhejiang's largest freshwater lake.

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The yellow-house restaurant on the Barkhor that has been feeding travelers for decades, with rooftop views of the Jokhang.

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Handwoven ikat silk from Kashgar's old city, where the bright, bold atlas patterns of the Silk Road are still made on wooden looms.

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The legendary ceramics studio at the heart of Jingdezhen, where travelers throw their own pots and the Saturday market draws artists from everywhere.

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A hillside of artists' studios in the mountains above Jingdezhen, where contemporary ceramic art is made, shown, and sold.

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UNESCO-listed string puppetry from the city that invented it, performed by masters whose fingers do the acting.

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A restored overseas-Chinese villa turned restaurant, serving the ginger duck and Min Nan classics of old Quanzhou.

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Zhang Yimou's river-wide stage: 600 performers, karst peaks as scenery, and the Li River as the floor.

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The rice liquor of Guangxi, aged in cave warehouses since 1952 - a taste of the province's rice paddies and limestone hills.

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The rainbow-patterned brocade of the Tujia people, woven by hand in the mountains of Zhangjiajie since the Song dynasty.

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A village of Bai silversmiths near Dali, where pure silver is beaten into jewelry, teapots, and ritual pieces by hand.

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Dali's most popular restaurant, serving Bai dishes and Yunnan flavors in a warmly decorated old-town house.

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A full Tang-dynasty city block rebuilt for immersion - rent the hanfu, dine on Tang recipes, and watch actors live the year 744.

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A walled Song-dynasty city on Hangzhou's edge, where you eat, dress, and watch the greatest show in Chinese theater.

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Beijing's most foreigner-friendly Peking opera house, where silk robes, painted faces, and sword dances take the stage nightly.

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The red-brick meeting hall where the Long March turned - the most consequential political gathering in modern Chinese history.

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The mountain pass where the Red Army won its first great victory - and where Mao wrote one of his most famous poems.

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The four river crossings that saved the Long March - battlefields, memorial halls, and the red cliffs that gave the river its name.

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The riverside town that distills China's most famous liquor, where the scent of fermenting baijiu hangs over the Long March ferry.