REAL PEOPLE. NEW PERSPECTIVES.
Extraordinary places. Living cultures. Ideas in motion.
Explore China ↗Choose what interests you and where you’d like to begin.
CHINA, IN THE MAKING
From intelligent mobility to living craft, meet the people connecting new ideas with the way China lives, works and creates.
Follow the questions connecting fundamental science, artificial intelligence and everyday life.
Read a mountain city through its railways, rivers and the ingenuity that connects daily life.
Draw with wax, discover indigo and explore how living traditions find expression in contemporary craft.
Shanghai: Xuthoria / WAIC 2025. This photograph, including its resized and display-cropped version, is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chongqing: sam Zheng / Pexels.
These photographs offer a window into China’s places and practices. WAIC is pictured in 2025, and Guizhou batik in 2016; they do not indicate an included event visit or a confirmed host workshop.
Guizhou batik: JL Cogburn / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Resized, display-cropped and gently brightened; adapted display remains CC BY-SA 2.0.
SMALL ENCOUNTERS. WIDER PERSPECTIVES.
A street becomes a story. A tea table opens a conversation. A material reveals a way of thinking. Follow a question, and see where it takes you.
01Read Shanghai through the homes, small businesses and everyday encounters that give a neighbourhood its character.
02Read Chengdu’s pace through tea-house seating, gaiwan gestures and conversations that turn a shared table into a living room.
03Follow materials and craft knowledge into the language of contemporary design.
FIND YOUR WAY IN
Follow a personal interest, explore a new field, or connect perspectives you wouldn’t usually put together.
PLACES WITH PERSONALITY
Distinctive destinations. Countless perspectives. From mountain communities and living heritage to the cities shaping what comes next.
Imperial layers. Hutong life. New perspectives.
Pandas. Tea tables. A generous pace of life.
River crossings. Mountain streets. A city in motion.
Living craft. Highland landscapes. Cultural variety.
Mountain communities. Living traditions. New connections.
Design thinking. Hardware ideas. Coastal energy.
Neighbourhood stories. Global ideas. Everyday energy.
Tea landscapes. Living craft. A digital imagination.
Garden thinking. Cultural memory. New ways of learning.
Ancient walls. Living history. Routes of exchange.
Sandstone peaks. Forest paths. A wider horizon.
Clear lakes. Mountain forests. Time to look closer.
Karst rivers. Village paths. Slow days by the water.
Xijiang village: Popolon / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized and cropped for display. This photograph and its display crop remain under the same licence.
Chengdu: Kenny Foo / Pexels. Xijiang cultural gathering: Lan Yao / Pexels.
Shanghai street life: Yudi Ding / Pexels · Pexels License
THE MIC POINT OF VIEW
The grower who reads the season. The cook who knows the morning rush. The student asking what comes next. A place comes into focus through the people who know it.
We shape the visit around what you want to understand.
Relevant local knowledge gives each encounter depth.
Access, timing and pace are considered together.
A LITTLE INSPIRATION
Borrow an idea, change the pace, add a different perspective. These journeys are invitations to begin.
EVERYDAY CHINA · 4–7 DAYS
Neighbourhoods, tea landscapes and garden thinking. Make time for the details.
CHINA IN THE MAKING · 4–7 DAYS
Universities, digital commerce and contemporary design. Follow the questions shaping change.
LET’S MAKE IT PERSONAL
A first visit, a shared interest, a question worth exploring. Tell us what brings you to China.
PLAN YOUR CHINA JOURNEY
Tell us where you’d like to go, when you’re travelling and what interests you. Our team will help shape a journey around you.
