- Paperback: 992 pages
- Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; 8th Revised edition edition (31 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1740591178
- ISBN-13: 978-1740591171
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 683,574 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Antarctica to Zimbabwe, if you are going there chances are Lonely Planet has been there first. With a pithy and matter-of-fact writing style, these guides are guaranteed to calm the nerves of first-time world travellers, while still listing off-the-beaten-path finds sure to thrill even the most jaded globe-trotters. Lonely Planet has been perfecting its guidebooks for nearly 30 years and as a result, has experience and know-how similar to an older sibling's "been there" advice. The original backpacker's bible, the LP series has recently widened its reach. While still giving insights for the low-budget traveller, the books now list a wide range of accommodations and itineraries for those with less time than money.
Just as the authors describe China as "massive and endlessly fascinating", so is the material they have collected in this guide--an important travellers' opus. The 200-plus maps feature keys in English and Chinese script, there are essential details on transport options, a 12-page Chinese arts section, and a useful feature on the Chinese language. --Kathryn True
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This guidebook disc usses China's political landscape post-Deng and the Hong Kong handover. There is expanded information on history, culture, architecture and arts, with detaile medicine, techniques and therapies.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: China (Lonely Planet Country Guide) (Paperback)
We recently travelled through China and this book was worth its weight in gold! We rarely went anywhere without it and I can remember many a long train journey pouring over it for ideas and inspiration.
It was particularly helpful in the early planning stages of our trip when we were at home in cold England and trying to imagine the countries that we were going to visit. It assisted us in planning our route and discovering the places that would be of most interest to us. Of course, when you are actually there and living the experience, you make your own way and your own decisions, but this book was a bit like a security blanket for us - whenever we lost our way or became confused, it was always there to help. Due to any travel book being out of date almost the minute that it's published, of course a few recommended restaurants/hotels no longer existed but we used websites to help us with those things anyway. What was most valuable, was the history and advice about each different country and the things to do/attractions there - most of which we wouldn't have even known about before reading this book. Lonely Planet is always brilliant, they are my preferred travel guide and I use them every time I travel. I love that the books are really down to earth and offer real advice that doesn't beat around the bush - if a town is run-down and seedy they will tell it like it is! Before I went to China, I had heard rumours that the Lonely Planet books were banned from the country and that they would be taken away from you if you attempted to cross the boarders with them. That did not happen to us, but I would do your research before travelling there just in case. If you are planning a trip to China - buy this book! Even if you don't take it with you (it is quite heavy) it will inspire and excite you before your travels. Another piece of advice: if you are planning on travelling light, rip out the pages of the book that you will need e.g. the provinces that you are going to, and take them with you as smaller, lightweight books rather than carrying the whole thing about with you. I'm not ususally one for defacing books, but as any fellow traveler will know, you have to do what you can when you're on the road!
46 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: China (Lonely Planet Country Guide) (Paperback)
As someone who is doing a degree in Chinese and has just returned from China, having spent the past eleven months living there, I have to say this is the best travel guide available to help the backpacker find their way around. Between myself and my friends - who also lived in China for the same period of time - we had a cumulative collection of practically every single travel book written about China, and we came to refer to the Lonely Planet travel guide as 'The Bible' as it was so superior to the other travel guides we saw. That's not to say it is perfect - some things are have since gone out of date (Nothing new in China as things change so fast there), and it does stick to the tourist trail a little too much, but it is probably the most comprehensive of the guides I have seen. (However, going off the tourist trail is not so easy unless your Chinese is pretty good.) The Lonley Planet phrase book is also invaluable as it is clearly laid out and presented to the reader I could not have survived my first few months in China without it.
35 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Superficial, disappointing,
This review is from: China (Lonely Planet Country Guide) (Paperback)
I have recently returned from a short stint of travel in China. I nearly always use Lonely Planet guidebooks when I'm travelling, and they are usually good and often excellent. However this China book was almost useless to me - not worth the money I paid and certainly not worth the weight and space it took up in my backpack.I personally was travelling in Xinjiang, one of China's remoter western provinces. For an area so spectacularly rich in natural landscapes, ancient Central Asian culture and off the beaten track activities - not to mention it being China's largest province, about three times the size of France - the meagre 35 pages were totally worthless - only outlining in the most scant detail the most popular (and therefore arguably least rewarding) sites. I was very lucky to hook up with some Chinese backpackers and see large parts of the region which I would never have even known about had I been using this book - whole cities were missing from the map (usually one of LP's strong points), and most of the region seemed to have escaped the attenton of the 'author'. To me, the problem is that no single book of a sensible size could cover this vast and fascinating country in any detail - splitting the country up into maybe 4 regions would be a start. The only circumstance under which I would recommend this book is if you were planning to whizz through China just taking in it's major tourist sites. But then I wouldn't recommend doing that anyway. If you are looking at seeing ANY part of this wonderful country in any detail, look elsewhere, or be prepared to do a lot of your own groundwork - which is of course fun and rewarding - providing you have a reasonable grip on Mandarin. This is one country where English will NOT get you very far.
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