30 Oct 2025
Immersion City + Village
About InHeChina

Discover
The Real China

Quiet mountains. Neon skylines. Hometown kitchens. We choreograph only the essentials so every journey stays intimate, bilingual, and effortless.

691 Cities hosted
4.8 hrs avg. concierge reply
86% travels repeating
Field Journal · Inspired by WildChina layouts

Sunny’s Non-Zero-Sum Travel

“Travel is the gentlest instrument for serious work. It replaces stereotypes with faces.” Sunny edits every route herself so diplomacy happens over tea tables and village walks.

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Latest Dispatch

Our Lüliang field team just wrapped a dual-city residency that paired Beijing gallery nights with Shanxi mountain homestays. Every ticket funds language stipends for youth guides.

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Sunny leading a village walk

Sunny Xue · Founder & Host

“Travel is the gentlest instrument for serious work.” Sunny grew up in Shanxi, studied politics and management across Canada and the UK, and spent eight years listening in nearly thirty countries. Every itinerary here is edited to practice non-zero-sum communication—listen first, co-thrive later.

She chose a for-profit bridge on purpose: when value is exchanged fairly, cultural diplomacy lasts. Expect depth over checklists, overlooked towns over tourist circuits, and two-way conversations in classrooms, markets, and tea studios.

Story

2018

Circling Shanxi Immersion

Sunny piloted dual-language escorts and choreographed the six-prefecture loop that still anchors our Shanxi stays.

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2020

Scaling The Vision

Community pop-ups, recycled charity shops, and livestream summer camps kept cross-border dialogue alive while borders tightened.

Open prep checklist
2023

Field Lab To Classroom

Fellows mapped Beijing-to-Lüliang lesson labs, produced bilingual assignments, and proved the academic outcomes clients ask for.

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2025

India–Pakistan Friends

Village exchanges and school fairs now pair students from India and Pakistan with Shanxi hosts for shared culture days.

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Mission · Vision · Values

Mission

Keep meeting the real China simple—local hosts, transparent budgets, itineraries tested in person.

Vision

Practice non-zero-sum communication at scale so every journey lowers barriers between cultures.

Values

Listen first, travel responsibly, and ensure every community benefits from the exchange.

Signature Experiences

Three pillars shape every itinerary: discreet logistics, human storytelling, and care for the communities hosting us.

City + Village Loop

Dual-Perspective Routes

Land in a tier-one city, then slip into a nearby village with the same host to decode history, food culture, and dialect transitions in one easy arc.

Immersive Tables

Studio Dining Sessions

We reserve private artist studios or tea houses, invite local chefs, and translate the entire tasting in real time so conversations stay intimate.

Zero Guesswork

Concierge Field Kits

Guests receive geo-tagged notes, Mandarin essentials, payment tips, and emergency contacts in one secure link that works offline.

Sunny's Travel Journal

Every cohort leaves a field note. Tap a card to open the detailed story page, then keep exploring the full bilingual archive.

Host Collective

We recruit designers, former journalists, and heritage advocates as city hosts. Each one curates experiences through their own lens while upholding the same promise of privacy and depth.

Chengdu • Culinary Anthropologist

Liu Wen

Documents minority food rituals and opens her test kitchen for guests to learn fermentation techniques passed down from her Yi family.

Shenzhen • Design Strategist

Eric Zhao

Leads architecture walks through tech campuses and art villages, pairing each visit with maker introductions and prototyping labs.

Gansu • Cultural Archivist

Amina Ma

Guides travelers across desert monasteries while digitizing oral histories. She ensures community proceeds fund language schools.

18 vetted provinces
Real-time bilingual chat
Cultural briefing packets
“Luxury is being invited into someone’s story without feeling like a spectator. Every itinerary we craft starts with that standard.”
Sunny Xue · Founder, InHeChina Travel

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