Stories · Field notes from within

Stories from inside China.

Meet the people, ideas, neighbourhoods and institutions behind a MIC journey — and arrive with questions worth asking.

Journey perspectives

See the experience behind the story.

Each field note begins with a real MIC experience. Open the product page to review its context, flow and request-first details.

Shanghai · Local life

Read Shanghai through a protected neighbourhood road, shared doorways, breakfast routines and the small businesses that keep daily life moving.

Shanghai · University

Connect Fudan’s academic legacy with present-day questions through campus context, intellectual exchange and a closer view of research culture.

Shanghai · Engineering

Follow the connection between SJTU’s historic Xuhui campus, engineering education, AI, robotics and the wider urban context of Shanghai.

Hangzhou · Digital commerce

Move from platform economics and AI-enabled business intelligence to livestream operations and the people executing digital commerce in practice.

Chengdu · City rhythms

Begin with pandas, then follow neighbourhood food, tea-house pace and Sichuan flavours into the everyday generosity of Chengdu.

Chongqing · Urban life

Move through Chongqing’s terrain, layered transit and river-port history, then meet the city through kitchens and neighbourhood tables.

Turn reading into a route

Add cities and experiences to a draft journey. MIC will help connect them into a story you can travel through.