China News Contents Luxury Travel News Hotel/Restaurant News Calendar Odds N' Ends – David Spindler Interview Discovery – Sanxingdui     Dear Guy, From our founding, Imperial Tours' Monthly Group tours and FITs have challenged the notion that there are no sophisticated venues in China. Seven years later,  » Read more »

Select Asia for those cruise clients who have done it all; they're sure to return impressed by Lauren Price Margot Kong at Imperial Tours in San Francisco has plenty of Hong Kong favorites, but renting a junk in Hong Kong Harbor for a romantic evening sipping cocktails, antique hunting along Hollywood Road and private cooking lessons at the Hong Kong Culinary Institute top of her list.  » Read more »

  China News Contents China Travel News Hotel/Restaurant News Calendar Odds N Ends Discovery – Braille Without Borders     Dear Guy, This April issue includes: An exclusive interview with contemporary artist Zheng Zai Dong, accompanied by a slide show of his recent "West Lake" series An introduction to a fantastic new restaurant inside a 1,000 year old temple in Beijing Details of the Hotel of Modern Art near Guilin A review of competing hotels in the Guilin area A profile of the two young people behind "Braille Without Borders",  » Read more »

by Hilary Stafford-Clark Once in China it becomes obvious that for all but the most intrepid first-timer, a guided tour is almost essential. There is just too much to see, too much to absorb, in this vast country where 5,000 years of history are colliding head-on with the 21st century. Guidebooks, particularly those to Shanghai, are mainly out of date; few people speak English; and signs, except in the cities,  » Read more »

by Melinda Allman What's Cool: The Great Wall could stretch from Florida to the North Pole. China's Great Wall, stretching more than 4,500 miles (7,300 km) across the northern Chinese countryside, was built originally as a fortification to protect Chinese lands from invasion and to keep the nation's people from leaving the empire. In the centuries since, however, it has become both a symbol of tyranny – thousands of slaves were sacrificed during the building process-and a tourist attraction,  » Read more »