It's been a slow shift from Communist spare to contemporary cool, but mainland China today has grabbed hold of style and spread its own take on hotels across its vast territory - from its big urban centres through its time-locked rural retreats and even, controversially, in Greater Tibet. Here are the leaders of the new revolution.
Yes, yes, we know there is a brand new Aman resort in China - and we'll get to that. However, The Luxury Travel Bible can't quite go past the location, location, location of Aman at Summer Palace
It's quite a challenge to blend the new into the very old, but this is what Banyan Tree has skilfully achieved just outside the cobbled street charm of the world heritage-listed town of Lijiang.
If you've ever been captured by the mysterious maze of old Beijing backstreets, then DuGe hotel is your opportunity to step through those old wooden doors and experience the courtyard style living that was afforded the city's elite.
The Luxury Travel Bible has a sneaking suspicion that Alessi and Starck have been shipped in on a secret mission to oversee the look - there are so many angles and sculptures in scribbly shapes.
This is the Kayumanis hotel group's first foray into China and with it they have revealed a remarkably deft understanding of escape in this rural region.
