Mountain retreats and heritage wellness destinations

Fifty-five shikumen hotel villas in Xuhui.

Great Wall at dawn: 22-room boutique retreat at Mutianyu, morning wall walks before the crowds, TCM spa, and northern Ch

Heritage 3,600m glamping on Geladan Grasslands: China's first luxury tented resort, now a Vinetree Yunnan booking gatewa

A hotel on the upper floors at No. 6 East Zhujiang Road.

A Futian hotel on Shennan Boulevard where the afternoon tea is Palm Court, the club is on level 22, and the florists kee

A beach hotel on Haitang North Road in Sanya, Hainan.

A 100-room hotel in a preserved courtyard on Bitieshi Street, beside Daci Temple, with a Michelin-starred vegetarian tea

252 rooms, suites, and villas on Dongqian Lake, where a courtyard view and a lake terrace are different keys, and a pool

A New District hotel at 168 Ta Yuan Road, about 15 minutes from the railway station, with Hanshan Temple among the neigh

Banyan Tree Ringha — Tibetan farmhouse villas reassembled in Ringha Valley in Shangri-La, China.

A Xiamen hotel five minutes from the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, with Gulangyu across the water and a meeting room on level

A hotel on Huaining Road whose lobby dome is polished stone, not glass, with Huangshan paintings in the corridors.

A High-tech Zone hotel at 38B Keji Road, in the city of the Terracotta Warriors, and not beside them.

A Yangzhou hotel at 472 Wen Chang Xi Lu, with Huaiyang cooking at Shang Palace and the gardens as the outing.

A Jinan hotel on Luoyuan Street, next to Spring City Square, Baotu Spring and Daming Lake.

414 rooms in Hangzhou Kerry Centre, a five-minute walk from West Lake, with lake view sold as a room type.

Le Passage Mohkan Shan — Christophe Peres & Pauline Lee family tea-plantation country house in Moganshan, China.

Thirty-four rooms on the Yulong River, outside Yangshuo town, with no television in the room and breakfast when you book

Emerald Valley villa lodge for Huangshan trails, misty peaks, and Huizhou heritage villages

Aman in Hangzhou's Buddhist tea village: Lingyin Temple walks, Longjing tea picking, TCM spa, and restored Qing dynasty

Treetop China: bamboo villas suspended above Nankunshan rainforest, Cantonese TCM spa, and the most architecturally dist

190 rooms and villas on Tufu Bay, Hainan.

A Wolf D. Prix building beside Happy Snow Park in Yuelu, with 288 rooms, Cantonese at Ming Court, and a bar called Peak.

A Hainan hotel on Binhai Avenue, with Cantonese at T'ang Court toward the skyline, tea on the 43rd floor, and dinner bes

390 rooms with balconies on Renmin Road, beside the Ancestral Temple and the lanes of Lingnan Tiandi.

A hotel on Dalong Lake, where a Club Executive City View is its own room, so the water is not automatic.

A hotel on Renmin Road by Zhongshan Square, about 12 kilometres from the airport, with the beach a metro ride away.

A resort in Jiantang, the Yunnan town that carries the novel's name, on Chicika Street in Diqing.

The tallest hotel in the Shangri-La group, at 403 metres on Minzu Avenue, joined to MixC.

A Hankou hotel at 700 Jian She Avenue, beside MixC, with three subway lines and a recent refurbishment.

A Beihai hotel on Chating Road that looks over the bay, about 30 minutes from the airport.

A Hohhot hotel on Xi Lin Guo Le South Road, looking at Qingcheng Park, in the centre of Inner Mongolia’s capital.

383 rooms on Qingnian Avenue, looking at Qingnian Park, a short walk from MixC and about 25 kilometres from the airport.

A riverside hotel at 1 Xiangyuan Road, with the Ou River in the view and the convention centre next door.

360 rooms on Min Zu East Road in Baotou, about 30 minutes from the airport, not the Hohhot park hotel.

A hotel at 3 Chunqiu Road in Confucius’s town, with the mansion and the temple as the reason to come.

301 rooms at 887 and 889 Changhong West Road, with city or garden views and three places to eat.

304 rooms on the Haihe, about five minutes from Tianjin East station and about 30 from the airport.

362 rooms on Futian Road in Yiwu, across from the trade mart. This Futian is not Shenzhen.

439 rooms at 111 Huan Cheng Bei Er Lu, including a terrace with a mountain view.

473 rooms at 669 Cui Lin Road, with the Gan River in the window the hotel describes.

366 rooms in the business district of the city that calls itself the Forest City.

336 rooms under the hotel's own line, Luxury by the Purple Mountain.

416 rooms in the mountain city, with Guo Hui Yan and a brew house.

327 rooms in the centre of Fuzhou, under a jasmine headline.

A Jinfeng District hotel beside the Ningxia museum, 30 minutes from Hedong.

363 rooms in the south of Taiyuan, with Long Yuan and a Paulaner.

151 rooms between Cangshan and Erhai, with a spring through the grounds.

Twenty rooms facing rice terraces in a Tibetan and Naxi valley, a short drive from Yunnan Golden Monkey National Park.

Tsingpu Baisha Retreat Lijiang offers a unique cultural experience nestled under

A 1948 merchant courtyard in Xizhou, and a second house ten minutes away.

Banyan Tree Huangshan — Banyan Tree villas beside UNESCO Hongcun / Huangshan foothills in Hongcun / Yi County, China.

LUX* Tea Horse Road Benzilan — Yangtze riverside Tea Horse Road lodge at the Yunnan-Tibet gateway in Benzilan, China.