Simon Foster - Frommers China

Frommers China, 5th Edition

by Simon Foster, Candice Lee, Jen Lin-Liu, Beth Reiber, Tini Tran, Lee Wing-sze, and Christopher D. Winnan

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Back Cover Photo: The shopping area of Nanjing Donglu, Shanghai Kevin Foy / Alamy Images.

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List of Maps

Suggested Itineraries

Beijing & Hebei

Beijing Hotels & Restaurants

Beijing Hotels & Restaurants Key

Beijing Attractions

Beijing Attractions Key

Walking Tour: The Back Lakes

Chengde

Dongbei

Shenyang

Shenyang Key

Dandong

Dalian

Changchun

Changchun Key

Jilin City

Harbin

The Yellow River Region

Datong

Hohhot

Yinchuan

Taiyuan

The Silk Routes

Xian

Xian Key

Lanzhou

Jiayu Guan

Dunhuang

Turpan

rmqi

Kashgar

Eastern Central China

Zhengzhou

Kaifeng

Tai Shan

Qingdao

Qingdao Key

Nanjing

Nanjing Key

Yangzhou

Huang Shan

Shanghai Hotels & Restaurants

Shanghai Hotels & Restaurants Key

Shanghai Attractions

Shanghai Attractions Key

The Southeast

Quanzhou

Xiamen

Guangzhou

Guangzhou Key

Hong Kong

Kowloon

Central Hong Kong

Macau

The Southwest Region

Guilin

Yangshuo

Kunming

Dali

Er Hai Hu

Shaxi

Lijiang

The Yangzi Region

Chengdu

Chongqing

Wuhan

Changsha

Tibet

Xining

Lhasa

Lhasa Key

Note About Maps

This guide contains dozens of maps of varying sizes and complexity. If you find it hard to read a map on your device, use the zoom function to enlarge. You can also download and/or printout PDFs of all of the maps in this guide. Go to www.frommers.com/go/ebookmaps and click on the title of your guide.

About the Authors

Simon Foster was born in London and grew up in rural Yorkshire. He started work as a tour leader in the Middle East in 1997 and was then posted to India and China. He has contributed to numerous international guidebooks and magazines, and now lives in sunny southern Taiwan with his wife, daughter, and dog. When hes not writing, Simon leads adventure tours for Bamboo Trails (www.bambootrails.com) and Grasshopper Adventures (www.grasshopperadventures.com) in China, Taiwan, the Philippines, and India.

Candice Lee has lived in Beijing for the past 5 years and has worked as a manager and cooking instructor at Black Sesame Kitchen for 3 years with previous experience working with HIV/AIDS, research, and event managing. She explores, eats, and scrappily finds her way through as many new places as possible (usually by bicycle).

Jen Lin-Liu is the author of Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China (Harcourt, 2008) and a forthcoming book about the food of the Silk Road (Riverhead Press). She lives in Beijing and has written about food, culture, and travel for a wide range of international publications.

Beth Reiber spent hours pouring over her grandparents latest National Geographic magazines. After living four years in Germany as a university student and then as a freelance travel writer selling to major U.S. newspapers like the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, followed by a stint in Tokyo as editor of the Far East Traveler, she authored several Frommers guides, including Frommers Japan, Frommers Tokyo and Frommers Hong Kong.

Tini Tran has spent nearly two decades as a reporter in the United States and overseas. She is a veteran foreign correspondent who has traveled extensively throughout Asia and parts of the Middle East on assignment, reporting from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, among other countries. She has been based in China since 2008, most recently working for the Associated Press. She was chosen as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University from 2006-2007. Prior to that, she served as the Vietnam bureau chief for The AP. Born in Saigon, she returned to her homeland in 1999 to become the first Vietnamese-American allowed to join the foreign press corps.

Lee Wing-sze is a freelance writer, translator, and avid traveler who hails from Hong Kong where she has been witness to the economic and ideologic impact of China on the East-meets-West city since the 1997 handover. Music and basketball are her passion, but her dream is to step foot in every country on the earth, all the while bumping into people of different colors and collecting their compelling life stories.

Christopher D. Winnans love/hate relationship with the continent currently known as China has lasted more than a decade. Last year he bought a retirement house in Thailand, but even that cannot seem to keep him away from China, and he is currently residing in Dali, Yunnan Province.

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Advisory & Disclaimer

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