A brand new title encapsulating one of China’s most significant cities - Shanghai - a city that reperesents buzzing and booming modern China in all it''s glory. Well written, thoroughly researched and to the point it gives a clear picture of what must be done and where, to get the most out of this progressive megacity. Covering the Shanghai area as well as Putuoshan and the nearby canal towns, this guide provides you with all the facts, as well as those unusual places to go that will make for that extra-special and positively memorable trip.
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Simon Lewis is a travel writer and winner of the Bradt Travel Writing Award
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Decent Content But Useless Maps,
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This review is from: The Rough Guide to Shanghai 1 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) (Paperback)
In the past I've been very happy with the Rough Guide series, having used it successfully in Japan. I like to have something other than the ubiquitous Lonely Planet so I don't show up at the same places as a hundred other tourists. However, this book may change my mind.
While the content has been good and up-to-date (hard in the ever-changing China), the maps are close to useless. The problems: * No Chinese Characters! -- Cabs (and most Chinese) cannot read English nor pinyin. Try showing a cabbie in Shanghai a map from the Rough Guide and he'll politely ask you to leave his vehicle. There is a section on another page which has *some* of the most common places in Chinese, but this has limited usefulness. * No Grid! -- Open a 2-page map in the Rough Guide and try to find the dot for restaurant labelled #c. You have to scan the entire map to find it, unlikely other guides which tell you which grid-area it is in (i.e. "C-4"). Also, someone green-lighted the usage of both upper and lower case letters, so you have to figure out if the "c" you're looking at is a capital "C" or a lower-case "c". Finally, the spots are randomly placed and ordered. * Just Incorrect! -- More than once a street was incorrectly named or the restaurant/bar/hotel was not in the place the map said. Rather, it was a couple blocks away. * All Over The Place! -- Rather than have all the maps in the back or front so that it's easy to navigate, the maps are scattered all over the book. And even more troublesome, it frequently mentions a map to refer to without mentioning the page on which you can find the map. There are other issues, but these are the main ones. I'm in China right now and brought the Lonely Planet Beijing and the Rough Guide Shanghai. The LP was perfect, the RG was useless. Unfortunately, I'm stuck with it for the rest of this trip, but I won't make the same mistake again. It's clear this first version was rushed out without any Focus Group analysis on its usability.
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