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World Hotels - Lonely Planet Best of Beijing (Lonely Planet Encounter Series)
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List Price: $14.99
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Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9781740598415
ISBN: 1740598415
Label: Lonely Planet Publications
Manufacturer: Lonely Planet Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2006-03
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Studio: Lonely Planet Publications
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Editorial Reviews:
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This is the only pocket guide to Beijing, with fold-out maps and script in text for every listing. The 2008 Olympics means Beijing is more welcoming than ever. The insider picks on the best restaurants and sights save time in this massive city. 2003 saw 75 per cent increase in foreign visitors. China will host a summit meeting, involving Chinese and African leaders next year in Beijing, in a bid to institute the layout of Sino-African cooperation. There are 61 million Chinese investors in the stock market. There are 60 million members of the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese Emperor Shi Huang-Ti built a network of 270 palaces, linked by tunnels, and was afraid of assassination that he slept in a different palace each night. Fingerprinting was used in China as early as 700 A.D.
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Summary: AWESOME GUIDE, but beware...
Comment: Why beware? Well, Beijing is undergoing massive reconstruction in advance of the 2008 Olympics. I went to one location this guide mentioned, hoping to find the "Cool World CD Store" and instead found an open construction lot.
Snap.
Fortunately, the big places - The Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, etc. - are still there, so you shouldn't miss those. The maps are superior and were the things I'd refer to most frequently there. They're strategically located on the endflaps, not buried in the pages of the book. If I ever go to Beijing again, I'll have this little travel bible by my side, you can be assured of that!
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Summary: A little too compact, perhaps. . .
Comment: Perhaps I have to chalk it up to my nearly-fifty-year-old eyes, but this guidebook is virtually impossible to use without a magnifying glass. Every time I read a review that harps point size I usually take it with the proverbial grain of salt, but this one really is very difficult to use. The maps of Beijing are even worse than the text, as the captions are printed in colors that do not stand out from the background. I thought this would be a nice little pocketbook to carry, that would fulfill both guidebook and map requirements, but in the latter case, it just isn't useful at all!
The guidebook itself is pretty concise, however, so that is a redeeming factor. A lot of the info seems to be imported from the LP China volume. I would just get that, plus a real map of Beijing. (And I have found that the Insight map of Beijing does not have any captions in Chinese characters. Maybe it was an older edition? I would think that is requisite for a city map to be at all useful!)
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