Robb Report – Beijing, Shanghai & Hong Kong Promotion
This article originally appeared in Robb Report and is reproduced here as part of Imperial Tours’ media and publication archive.
Promotion
Of Note
Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong constitute the three major Chinese metropolises that likely lie at the heart of our shared global future. This eight-day tour not only features the most impressive cultural treasures of these remarkable cosmopolitan cities but also introduces the daily life of their inhabitants.
In Hong Kong the grandiose colonial history of Central is contrasted with the everyday ambitions of ordinary locals as expressed to the fortune-tellers at Wong Tai Xin temple. Similarly, the communist and imperial architectural splendors of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City are contrasted with a pedicab ride through the residential districts of the lower-middle and affluent classes in the traditional hutong or alleyways of the city’s historic center. In Shanghai, you will spend time in the three historic divisions of the city—wandering along the charming mansion-lined streets of the famed French Concession, investigating the handsome early-20th-century institutions along the Bund in the International Settlement, and finally pressing close along the narrow lanes of the old Chinese quarter. These remnants of a colonial past are in turn contrasted by the proud futuristic sentinels of Shanghai’s riverside business district, an ever-developing skyline boasting some of the world’s most magnificent contemporary architecture. Welcome to China.
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