China Study Tours
Browse our small-group study tours to China — Beijing, Shanghai and beyond. Each tour pairs ancient civilization with cutting-edge technology, designed for international travelers.
Shenzhen: The China Speed Story — 4 Days
40 years ago a fishing village. Today: home to DJI, Tencent, Huawei and BYD. Visit the actual headquarters and factories where China's tech revolution was built.
Hangzhou: Silk, Tea & Alibaba — 4 Days
Marco Polo's 'most beautiful city in the world' — West Lake, ancient silk, Dragon Well tea, and the birthplace of Alibaba and China's digital economy.
Xiamen & Fujian: Tulou Fortresses & Island Life — 5 Days
Car-free Gulangyu Island, the bizarre and beautiful UNESCO Tulou roundhouses built by Hakka clans, and the slow island life of southeast China.
Shanghai: Future & Past — 5 Days
Colonial Bund at dawn, autonomous vehicles by noon, the world's largest automated port by night. Shanghai is China's window to the future — and you can touch it.
Guangzhou: Maritime Silk Road to Greater Bay — 5 Days
China's oldest trading port, where merchant ships arrived 2,000 years ago, and today's Greater Bay Area megaregion is being engineered.
Hainan Island: China's Tropical Tech Frontier — 6 Days
China's Hawaii — tropical rainforest, volcanic villages, indigenous Li culture, and the largest Free Trade Port being built on the planet today.
Guizhou: The World's Largest Eye — 5 Days
A 500-meter radio telescope built into a mountain, listening for signals from the edge of the universe. Plus China's most surreal karst landscape and Miao villages frozen in time.
Xi'an: Ancient Capital & Aerospace Frontier — 5 Days
China's ancient capital — home of the Terracotta Army, the start of the Silk Road, and today a hub of space and aerospace research.
Chengdu: Pandas, Bronze Mystery & Slow Life — 6 Days
Giant pandas, a 3,000-year-old bronze civilization that shouldn't exist, and China's most beloved slow-life culture — all in relaxed, green Chengdu.
Wenchang: Witness a Rocket Launch — 4 Days
Stand at the viewing site as a Long March rocket thunders skyward from China's newest spaceport. Then explore the tropical coast and coconut forests of Hainan.
Beijing Ancient & Tech Wonders — 7 Days
Walk the Great Wall in the morning, step inside Xiaomi's robot-staffed car factory in the afternoon. The perfect collision of 600-year-old heritage and tomorrow's technology.
South China Triangle: Guangzhou → Shenzhen → Hong Kong — 8 Days
The Greater Bay Area in depth — 2,000 years of maritime trade, the world's most extreme tech miracle, and the global crossroads of Hong Kong.
Grand Tour: Beijing → Xi'an → Shanghai — 12 Days
The full China experience. The Great Wall, Terracotta Army, Forbidden City — plus AI labs, autonomous vehicles, and the world's largest smart port. Three cities, one civilization.