China - Fodor's

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Smart travel tips and important contact info make planning your trip a breeze and detailed coverage of sights, accommodations, and restaurants give you the info you need to make your experience enriching and hassle-free.
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The best guide to China, packed with essentials
Buddhist temples, imperial palaces, gardens, and tombs
Tiny lanes, teeming street markets, and towering skyscrapers
Sacred mountains, terraced hillsides, river trips, and camel tours
Where to shop for antiques, porcelain, silk, jade, and more

Where to stay and eat, no matter what your budget
Modern luxury hotels, traditional guest houses, and yurt camps
Gracious hotel dining, great stops for kebabs, and dim sum

Fresh, thorough, practical -- off and on the beaten path
Costs, hours, descriptions, and tips by the thousands
Reviews by savvy writer-residents, including Shanghai Talk editor Lily Tung and Beijing journalist George Wehrfritz
53 pages of maps and 34 vacation itineraries

Important contacts, smart travel tips
What's Where
Further reading and videos to watch
Chinese vocabulary
Complete index