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Beijing and Shanghai (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

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Manufacturer: DK Travel
List Price: $23.00
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These two fascinating cities reflect different aspects of China - Beijing is the traditional capital, the seat of political power and home to the ancient monuments of Imperial China; Shanghai is both a financial powerhouse and a city at the cutting edge of fashion with an interesting modern history. This DK Eyewitness Travel Guide provides in-depth coverage of these cities, including Beijing's Great Wall and Forbidden City, Shanghai's Bund and the French Concession, as well as the water towns of Suzhou and Hangzhou, graced with serene and timeless gardens and lakes. Explore China's cultural heritage through richly illustrated features - on everything from Beijing Opera to Confucianism, Chinese Gardens and the Cultural Revolution. Illustrated food features highlight the differing regional cuisines, and resident China experts have provided detailed listings of the best places to stay and eat. Specially devised walking tours take you easily to the heart of these bustling, enigmatic and ultimately bewitching cities.


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9780756625009
ISBN: 0756625009
Label: DK Travel
Manufacturer: DK Travel
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2007-01-15
Publisher: DK Travel
Studio: DK Travel


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Not worth your bucks
Comment: The only thing good about this guide is its comprehensive road listing in the back of the Beijing and Shanghai sections. The best guide for a solid experience is Luxe's various City Guides--the one for Shanghai is bomb. This guide is for boring people who have boring lives.

Customer Rating:
Summary: D&K Travel Books are the Best
Comment: I highly recommend all D&K travel books. This one was the same quality as I have used in the past. Excellent! My first trip to Shanghai was made even better with this book. Excellent photos and content.

Customer Rating:
Summary: An excellent resource
Comment: This book served as an excellent resource for us on our recent trip to China. It includes all of the tourist sites as well as guided walks. The pictures were nice, too.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent guide for the visitor
Comment: The main strength of the DK series is the photography, however the descriptions are also good. If you need a hotel and restaurant guide then this is not your book, but then i have found most restaurant recommendations in other guides to be suspect anyway. This is a very compact guide taken largely from their China Guide. It does also include day trips.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Beautiful, helpful, packed with information and light
Comment: Since my wife and I would be going to China in 2009 (to see the next total eclipse), I wanted to "get the lay of the land "so to speak and find out more specifically what the cities had for us and more. While we would be on a tour, I still wanted to know more for myself as well as being able to tell more on the videos, websites and presentations I would create. I looked at about 10 books that I thought were good and covered what I wanted. I wanted to find more about not only the sights and traveling (mostly we would be in and around Shanghai and Beijing before and after the eclipse and because of this would not need a book that would include other parts of China)but more about the sights, monuments, art, museums;architecture and more. The layout of the book is splendid. What I really got this book for was the nice color illustrations, photos, maps.It is light enough for me to take with us. The information does have text that is small but that is because the book packs so much useful information (much of what I wanted to know about) . The sections for hotel and restaurant information will help those who might be finding their own way. But since we already have our hotels and most of the places to eat already arranged on the tour, I was not too focused on these but the restaurant information would help when we were had to fend for ourselves. The " Where to Eat " section is quite good and includes what to focus upon in Beijing and Shanghai.I have been all around the world and have cooked and eaten all types of food and recipes but I still found this part well done and helpful.However unlike some other books, it was difficult for me to locate particular restaurants on the map, because the exact location were not noted via a red dot or something to fine particular restaurants, a more easier process (for this I would use another book). However there was an excellent legend key/ set of symbols that can help find restrooms, tourist information and more. There are nice sections on excursions, nightlife information and walking tour info. There is an excellent Beijing street finder map and subway map. There is even a nice little phrase section to learn about the language. So if you are going to Shanghai and/or Beijing find this book and look it over even if you have to use a magnifying glass! (I could still see the type very well). The book is packed with a lot of great information, is handsomely laid out and has much of the information I was looking for. It might be the one for you too.

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