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Beijing and Shanghai (Eyewitness Travel Guides) |  | Author: DK Publishing
Publisher: DK Travel
Category: Book
List Price: $23.00
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 9803
Media: Paperback
Pages: 240
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 4.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0756660920
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9780756660925
ASIN: 0756660920
Publication Date: October 19, 2009
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Product Description
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.
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 It is a good book! June 1, 2010
April (Pa, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My 10 years' old daughter loves this book. She will go to visit Beijing and Shanghai this summer. She said she will carry the book as a good reference.
 Poor maps, no Chinese characters April 19, 2010
C. Nelson (San Diego)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Except on very major roads, none of the street signs in Beijing are written in English. The book doesn't have any Chinese characters listed for the streets or business names. This means you can't match the Chinese characters on your own, or point to them when asking someone else. Unless you can perfectly pronounce the English versions of Chinese names and ask someone on the street (extremely hard, especially when given no accent marks on the english versions), this book is next to useless. Maybe this wouldn't bother you if you were only going to the main sites, but the book doesn't even show the reviewed businesses (hotels, restaurants, shops) on the maps, only the rough square they are in! Add in the fact that many city facts are just plain wrong (ignore their description of the subway for example, it is all electronic), and I honestly don't understand why there are so many great reviews regarding the maps & locations for this book. Unless you just want to read it for the pictures, stay away.
 Highly Recommended March 5, 2010
Frank Comments (Massachusetts)
I really enjoyed this book and used it extensively last September when I visited Beijing and Shanghai on business, each for a couple days. Very useful for getting one's bearings logistically and understanding the deep culture and extensive history of each city, especially Beijing. Visually rich and well presented - offering a preview of the grandness of the sites it describes. A bit on the large side for a travel guide, but I just managed to fit it in my back pocket.
Beijing February 15, 2010
Richard Anderson (San Diego, CA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Purchased at Amazon: This book was of excellent quality and very useful in my visit to Beijing and Shanghai. The street and subway maps were very helpful as was the hotel ratings.
good for people going on packaged tours January 21, 2010
l2 (California)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Like all DK books, this one is very glossy and colorful. If you're going on a packaged tour of these cities, this is a fine book to have. It has nice photos and maps of the major tourist attractions, as well as some historical information and suggested walking tours. On the other hand, if you're going to be visiting these cities for an extended period, you will probably exhaust the information in this slim book pretty quickly.
If you're a backpacker or independent tourist, this book will have limited value to you as there are only a handful of hotel and restaurant suggestions. The DK books are published much less frequently than other guidebooks, so I suppose extensive listings (like you find in annually updated guidebooks) would be obsolete a couple of years later.
This book does have a 2009 publication date and the Beijing subway map does include the new routes that were added for the 2008 Olympics.
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