Phoenix 01

Phoenix is your one-stop guide to everything lavish in Australia and China, keeping you up-to-date in the worlds of luxury travel, events places to stay and fashion.

This first issue of Phoenix is all about discovery. Whether it’s discovering some less-trodden destinations or rediscovering more familiar ones, we’re going to take you on a journey through China that offers the very best of old and new, urban and rural. You may think you know all there is to know about the Forbidden City in Beijing and that the story of shopping in Shanghai is something you’ve heard a thousand times, but our features are sure to teach you something new and make you want to revisit these old favourites. And then there’s Guangzhou: while it might be lesser-known, our trip to its Liwan district is bound to have you planning a visit there very soon – and you’ll definitely want to try some of the dumplings! Elsewhere, we visit Guilin in search of its cormorant fishermen and spend 48 hours in Chengdu.