Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 1028 pages
- Published by: Lonely Planet Publications
- Edition: 10th Edition May 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1740599152
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1740599153
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Book Dimensions:
7.6 x 5.1 x 1.6 inches
- Weighs: 1.7 pounds
Book Description
Walk the watchtowers at Badaling, where President Nixon once said, 'this is a great wall,' p. 163
Knock back a shot of Confucius
baijiu firewater in Qufu, hometown of the sage, p. 218
Find out how a local farmer first uncovered the Army of Terracotta Warriors, p. 428
Perfect your Monkey Offers Peach strike at Wudang Shan, birthplace of taichi, p. 481
12 authors and 483 days of in-country research
special coverage of pristine Ming and Qing dynasty villages for the first time in English
content updated daily - visit
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Publisher Description
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Lonely Planet authors living in 37 countries and fluent in seventy languages.
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What We Believe We believe that travel leads to a deeper cultural understanding and compassion and therefore a better world.
Reader Reviews
It is confusing that many of the reviews here are for the National Geographic Traveler China book, by the same author as the Lonely Planet book. The National Geographic book has lots of pictures and is a good "idea" book. The Lonely Planet is geared to the independent traveler, with much more specific information about how to get around. This review is for the Lonely Planet. My husband and I have successfully used Lonely Planet books on many other trips, but we were disappointed in the China book. Obviously China is a huge country, and it is changing very quickly, so we were not surprised to find that many places no longer exist and that some of the information was out-of-date. But we WERE surprised at the amount of blatantly wrong information. For example, the section on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain near Lijiang was so mixed-up that we ended up spending the day at the wrong hiking area. In most countries it would be fairly easy to double-check the accuracy of a description by asking a hotel concierge or taxi driver. In China, though, we often had problems communicating, so we relied much more heavily on our guidebooks. The book is huge, but it didn't need to be quite so big. Many of the descriptions are excessively wordy, and sometimes it seemed like the author was more interested in writing a clever review than clearly giving the facts. The best thing about the book is that names of places and most streets are written in Chinese. It was incredibly helpful to be able to point to the place we wanted to go. We found that our accents and pronunciations were so bad when we tried to read pinyin that most people didn't even realize we were trying to speak Chinese to them. We looked through other guidebooks at some of our guest houses, and unfortunately none seemed to be much better.
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