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Eagerly assuming its place among the world's top travel destinations, China is an epic ad-venture whichever way you take it. From the wide open and empty panoramas of Tibet to the push and shove of Shanghai, from the volcanic dishes of Sichuan to beer by the bag in seaside Qingdão, a journey through this colossus of a country is a mesmerising encounter with the most populous and perhaps most culturally idiosyncratic nation on earth.

Curator of the world's oldest continuous civilisation, China will have you bumping into history at every turn. But it's not just a museum of imperial relics, for the frisson of develop ment that has left China's coastline glittering with some of the world's most up-to-the-minute cities propels the land on with a forward-thinking…

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