This week’s Suzhou cancellation brought the Beijing crash much closer to home. A helicopter ride I won in a lucky draw was cancelled today, and the bigger question is now plain enough; are the new rules being rolled out...

Nanjing has found itself in the wrong column of China’s latest foreign trade rankings. While most major cities grew in the first half of 2026, the Jiangsu capital was the only one among the national top 20 to go...

Student Luke Rimmer left Suzhou on Tuesday with a bicycle, a ridiculous distance ahead of him and, by his own account, a promise to keep his mum updated. That last detail may be the most sensible part of the...

how on Earth did a Parisian house of luxury end up in a Suzhou courtroom over a milk tea logo? The answer is less glamorous than the brand's handbags and a lot more useful in a legal context than...

Weifang sits in central Shandong with a plainspoken confidence. It is a city of kites, woodcuts, engines and markets; a place that has learned to turn craft into identity and industry into habit without making too much noise about...

Canals, train lines and conference halls have all had a hand in Jiaxing’s rise, but the city still starts with water. South Lake gave it national memory; silk gave it trade; and Wuzhen later gave it a place on...