Best Shopping & Creative in China

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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