Travel to China: China Travel Guide

Our China Travel Guides include a wealth of firsthand knowledge about travel to China, which is second to none in the industry. You may use them as your personal way to ensure the perfect itinerary for your travels, whether you create a private Custom Journey to China or select a distinctive Small Group Trip.

Something astonishing is taking place in China. The Middle Kingdom has awakened, and it is mobilizing and buzzing with an immense energy that is propelling China into the modern age, even as layers of antiquity are being newly excavated. After 30 years of agonizing self-destruction and self-imposed isolation, the country is reinventing itself into an evolving hodgepodge of hard-line communism, rehabilitated Confucianism, and run amok free market capitalism. It is difficult to overstate the influence China has had on most, if not all, cultures of the Far East. Comparable to Roman and later French and British influence on western culture, China exercised a suzerain role as the central political power in Asia for centuries. Its architecture, technology, cuisine, art and religions are so deeply embedded in other Asian cultures that they are, ironically, scarcely recognizable as Chinese at all. Yet, since the rise of European colonialism, China’s power has been eclipsed. Throughout the 20th century, China was wrenched by an internal struggle to define itself as a modern nation, with imported western ideologies fighting each other to the death for China’s soul. The excesses of the Cultural Revolution, in which ancient Chinese culture was turned on its head, was followed by an era of stunned, quiet torpor, almost as if the nation was in a deep, exhausted sleep. Then suddenly China woke. The sense of dynamic change is palpable: come to China to explore one of the world’s oldest and greatest civilizations during this seismic cultural uplift.

How to Plan your China Vacation
The prospect of building a custom journey from scratch around your interests is a thrilling one, but where to begin? We’ve distilled a massive amount of information into this organized format to get you started. Use our Essential China section as a starting point, and then delve into the other sections as your inter-ests dictate. Call your Trip Coordinator and express to them your vision of the perfect trip. They can then customize the trip of a lifetime based on your interests, budget and timeframe. Stellar references from past travelers are available to make you certain you’ve made the right choice by traveling to China with Asia Transpacific Journeys.

China Travel: Experience Counts

We’ve been traveling in China for the last 20 years. Our expertise in China runs deep, and that’s why the Harvard Museum of Natural History calls on us to design custom trips for their membership. Our local guides in China will make China come alive to you. You’ll be ushered into a deep understanding of Chinese culture through one-on-one discussions of its people, art, history and wildlife. >>Essential China

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