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CHINA: Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong & Tibet

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I greatly enjoyed this video. It was professionally done with beautiful crisp clear photography and interesting commentary. The whole country was well covered and I really enjoyed the section on Tibet as well as Shanghai. I hope to visit this beautiful country some day, and will use this video as my reference guide.

I really enjoyed this DVD. The mix of traditional Chinese cultural sites in Beijing and Xian and the ultra-modern skyline in Shanghai were fascinating.

This video provides a good basic introduction to the highlights of China for the first-time traveler. It includes the cities mentioned in the title, along with the Panda Breeding Center in Chengdu, the Guilin area and Shuzou. It is relatively recently-produced, so the video quality is good. I found the narrator's voice to be a little annoying at times. All in all, it's well worth buying if you are not very familiar with the country, but would probably be too cursory for those who have been there before or who have done their homework.

This DVD on China is marvelous. I'm a part time travel agent and I love it. I have shown it to a couple of people and they were extremely impressed. Who knows, I might get a few trips booked as a result. The videos were amazing.

Leaving within a month for a trip to China and Tibet, I purchased this video as an "advance organizer" of how to prioritize my limited time within the country. The visual component of this DVD achieved my desired objective. However the verbal script embedded in the DVD could stand improvement. While the factual content, e.g. dates, names, etc. that it provides are useful, the discretionary wording and speaker's delivery are often juvenile.

I enjoyed this DVD because it showed me all of China including Tibet. Also I could take some Chinese lessons. If you see this DVD, you will really want to see cute pandas in China!!

This video provides a thorough overview of one of the most interesting countries in the world. If you want to understand the number 2 economy of the world, their past and what they might do in the future or if you just want to plan a tour of this amazing country this DVD is the perfect way to explore China.

Travel China. Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong & Tibet
locations & photography are good but not all inclusive. The commentary is sometimes a little hard to understand, and in a few instances is a bit heavy handed.
Nevertheless the subject matter is very interesting, and well worth watching.

The first thing wrong with this dvd is the narration; it's terrible. The narrator's voice is shrill, abrupt, and his speaking style is very disjointed; he inserts breaks in sentences where they don't belong and elongates words for effect. "The Chiiing dynasty..." "There were expensive chandeliers. Posh. Hotels. With wood paneled ceilings." I half expected him to say "Let's. Get. Ready. To. Ruuuuummblllle!"

I also could have done without seeing the exterior and interior of a Wal-Mart in China. They spent almost as much time on Wal-Mart as they did the Forbidden City.

At the end of the main video there is a rapid-fire section with some words and phrases, but they aren't shown on the screen so it's a little confusing.

The narrator speaks of additional videos at the end, on both pandas and the Forbidden City, but they are simply built in 2 minute segments. The one on the Forbidden City is the same footage from the main section of the dvd with a tiny bit more added; there are almost no interior shots at all.

I was looking for much more detail in a documentary and this just doesn't have it.

The scenery is nice, and there are some lovely gardens, but every aspect of it is seriously lacking in quality. You can most likely get just as much information on You Tube or any one of the travel sites on the web.