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Lonely Planet: The worlds leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Shanghai is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Enjoy the Bunds spectacle of heritage architecture, wander the Yuyuan traditional Chinese gardens, or see the latest in fashion at French Concession; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Shanghai and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely PlanetShanghai Travel Guide:
- Full-colour maps and images throughout
- Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
- Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
- Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices
- Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
- Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - including history, arts, architecture, customs, religion and belief, music, martial arts
- Free, convenient pull-out Shanghai city map (included in print version), plus over 28 colour maps
- Covers The Bund, Peoples Square, Old Town, French Concession, Jingan, Pudong, Hongkou, North Shanghai, Xujiahui, South Shanghai, West Shanghai, and more
The Perfect Choice:Lonely Planet Shanghai, our most comprehensive guide to Shanghai, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less travelled.
- Looking for just the highlights of Shanghai? Check out Lonely Planet Pocket Shanghai, a handy-sized guide focused on the cant-miss sights for a quick trip.
- Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planets China guide for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer, or Discover China, a photo-rich guide to the countrys most popular attractions.
Authors: Written and researched by Lonely Planet, Damian Harper, and Dai Min.
About Lonely Planet: Since 1973, Lonely Planet has become the worlds leading travel media company with guidebooks to every destination, an award-winning website, mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet covers must-see spots but also enables curious travellers to get off beaten paths to understand more of the culture of
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Shanghai
Shanghai: few world cities evoke so much history, excess, glamour, mystique and exotic promise by name alone.
Shanghai pulls a rabbit or two from its top hat. This is home to the world's second-tallest tower and a host of other neck-craning colossi. But it's not all sky-scraping razzmatazz. Beyond the crisply cool veneer of the modern city typified by Pudong, you can lift the lid to a treasure chest of architectural styles. The city's period of greatest cosmopolitan excess the 1920s and 1930s left the city with pristine examples of art deco buildings, most of which survived the 20th-century vicissitudes that assailed Shanghai. And there's more: from Jesuit cathedrals, Jewish synagogues and Buddhist temples to home-grown longtang laneway and shikumen housing, Shanghais architectural heritage is like nowhere else.
Thirty years ago, Shanghai's dour restaurant scene was all tin trays and scowling waiting staff, with international food confined to the dining rooms of 'exclusive' hotels. Chinese cooking was everywhere, of course, but it was pedestrian stuff. Today, you simply don't know where to start the mouth-watering restaurant scene is varied, exciting and up-to-the-minute. Food is the hub of Chinese social life. Its over a meal that people catch up with friends, celebrate and clinch business deals, and spend hard-earned cash. Some of your best memories of town could be culinary, so do as the Shanghainese do and make a meal of it.
Bearing in mind that Chinese shoppers constitute up to 47% of the global luxury-goods market, shopping is rarely done in half-measures in Shanghai. Retail therapy is one way of spending new money and the Shanghainese aren't called (xiaozi 'little capitalists') by the rest of China for nothing, especially at the luxury end of things. But it's not all Prada, Gucci and Burberry. There are pop-up boutiques, bustling markets, funky vintage shops and young designer outlets. Beyond clothing you're also spoiled for choice, whether you're in the market for antiques, ceramics, art, Tibetan jewellery...whatever is on your shopping list.
Beijing often hogs the limelight as Chinas cultural nexus, but for what is essentially a town of wheelers and dealers, Shanghai is surprisingly creative. Many art galleries are exciting, offering a window onto contemporary Chinese concerns, while nightlife options have exploded. Acrobatics shows are always a favourite and you might grab the chance to catch some Chinese opera. Shanghais music and club scene is a vibrant place: from unpretentious jazz and indie venues to all-night hip-hop and electro dance parties, the city swings with the best of them.
By Damian Harper, Author
I first visited Shanghai in 1993, when the Oriental Pearl TV Tower was going up, the Peace Hotel Jazz Band was already old and Xintiandi wasn't even on the back of an envelope. I sat on the Bund by the Huangpu River, opposite the flatland of Pudong, and felt a buzz in the air: this city was going places. Why do I love Shanghai? It's the food, the people, the European streets and art deco buildings, the narrow alleys and the sense of purpose. And don't get me started on the language!
The Bund is mainland Chinas most iconic concession-era backdrop, and a source of intense local pride. A gorgeous curve of larger-than-life heritage architecture, the buildings here may be dwarfed by the citys modern high-rises, but they carry in their stones an old-fashioned gravity that simply cant be matched. As a monument to the unbridled pursuit of wealth, its no surprise that the Bund was left to languish during the communist years, but Chinas economic renaissance has restored its standing among the citys most stylish panoramas.
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