Editorial travel planning and destination coverage for China.
Editorial Team
Browse the bylines behind destination pieces, planning guides, and practical travel topics, and see how the work is split across city desks and specialist editors.
Coverage
Profiles cover the people and desks behind city pages, route pieces, and practical trip-preparation coverage.
Structure
City coverage and cross-country planning are separated, so each part of the trip gets the right kind of attention.
Published Scope
Guides, topics, and place pages sit alongside the editors and desks responsible for them.
Editorial Shape
Senior Features Editor
Covers Beijing and Xi'an with a focus on old-city pacing, museums, history-heavy neighborhoods, and landmark tradeoffs.
Southwest Features Editor
Covers Chengdu and Chongqing with a focus on food culture, night districts, subculture, and how city character shapes the trip.
Shanghai Features Editor
Covers Shanghai and Suzhou with an eye for district texture, architecture, style, food culture, and softer urban pacing.
East China Editor
Covers Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Qingdao with a focus on city mood, heritage districts, food rhythm, and calmer first-trip pacing.
South China Editor
Leads Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Macau coverage, with a focus on urban contrast, transport logic, and Pearl River Delta city pairings.
Routes Editor
Maintains multi-city route, pairing, comparison, and itinerary-shape coverage across the publication.
Transport & Payments Editor
Covers airport arrivals, high-speed rail, app setup, payments, booking mechanics, and the practical basics that make the trip function.
Entry & Family Editor
Covers visa and transit questions, travel readiness, and family-oriented trip planning where rules and practicality need to work together.
Landscape & Slow Travel Editor
Covers Guilin, Yangshuo, and Zhangjiajie with a focus on scenic pacing, weather windows, base choice, and low-friction outdoor days.
City Guides Editor
Leads Wuhan and Harbin coverage, with a focus on practical city use, seasonal constraints, and underexplained first-time visitor decisions.
Haikou City Desk
Maintains Haikou coverage with a focus on old-port city texture, north-Hainan pacing, and when Haikou adds substance instead of delay.
Lijiang City Desk
Maintains Lijiang coverage with a focus on old-town pacing, highland route openings, and when Yunnan works better by beginning gently before it climbs.
Sanya City Desk
Maintains Sanya coverage with a focus on beach districts, resort pacing, and when Hainan works best as a softer southern chapter.
Shangri-La City Desk
Maintains Shangri-La coverage with a focus on altitude pacing, highland town rhythm, and when Yunnan becomes less decorative and more interior.
Wanning City Desk
Maintains Wanning coverage with a focus on Riyue Bay, east-coast pacing, and when Hainan works better as a looser surf-and-sea chapter.
Guilin City Desk
Maintains Guilin coverage with a focus on short stays, city-versus-county tradeoffs, and practical scenic planning.
Hangzhou City Desk
Maintains Hangzhou coverage with a focus on West Lake pacing, tea culture, and district decisions that keep the city calm rather than repetitive.
Harbin City Desk
Maintains Harbin coverage with a focus on winter planning, cold-weather pacing, and balancing headline ice attractions with comfort.
Hong Kong City Desk
Maintains Hong Kong coverage with a focus on district fit, transit convenience, and balancing classic harbor views with practical planning.
Macau City Desk
Maintains Macau coverage with a focus on old-core versus Cotai tradeoffs, day planning, and practical stay decisions.
Nanjing City Desk
Maintains Nanjing coverage with a focus on history pacing, district choice, and practical city stays that do not feel overbuilt.
Shenzhen City Desk
Maintains Shenzhen coverage with a focus on modern districts, skyline choices, and practical short-stay planning.
Suzhou City Desk
Maintains Suzhou coverage with a focus on garden pacing, canal districts, and practical short-stay choices.
Wuhan City Desk
Maintains Wuhan coverage with a focus on city shape, breakfast culture, and practical district planning.
Yangshuo City Desk
Maintains Yangshuo coverage with a focus on scenery-led pacing, side trips, and balancing river views with practical route choices.
Zhangjiajie City Desk
Maintains Zhangjiajie coverage with a focus on park pacing, ticket logic, weather windows, and base choice.
Beijing City Desk
Maintains Beijing route, district, stay, and attraction-planning coverage for travelers using the capital as a major stop.
Chengdu City Desk
Maintains Chengdu coverage with a focus on panda logistics, food planning, tea-house culture, and relaxed but workable city pacing.
Chongqing City Desk
Maintains Chongqing coverage with a focus on vertical-city movement, skyline planning, hotel areas, and food-heavy route decisions.
China Travel Notes Editorial Desk
An editorial desk focused on practical China trip planning, route logic, and traveler-facing booking basics.
Entry and Travel Rules Desk
Maintains traveler-facing coverage on visa basics, transit policies, re-entry questions, and arrival-rule planning.
Family Trip Planning Desk
Maintains cross-city family travel coverage, especially when pacing, age fit, and child-friendly tradeoffs affect the wider route.
Guangzhou City Desk
Maintains Guangzhou coverage with a focus on neighborhood contrast, Cantonese food planning, and Pearl River route logic.
Qingdao City Desk
Maintains Qingdao coverage with a focus on coastal pacing, beer and seafood districts, and practical city-side planning.
Cross-Country Planning Desk
Maintains cross-city itinerary, route-shaping, city-comparison, and trip-pacing coverage for travelers planning China as a whole.
Shanghai City Desk
Maintains Shanghai coverage with a focus on neighborhood fit, skyline planning, hotel areas, and smoother city pacing.
Trip Basics Desk
Maintains practical pages about payments, rail, airport transfers, booking flows, and day-one travel basics in China.
Trip Preparation Desk
Maintains practical preparation coverage such as apps, packing, daily-use readiness, food constraints, and low-friction first-trip setup.
Xi'an City Desk
Maintains Xi'an coverage with a focus on old-city pacing, Terracotta Army logistics, and the balance between history-heavy days and usable routes.