Shanghai

The engine of China's future, Shanghai dazzles with its metamorphosing cityscape and inexhaustible verve, beckoning millions with promises of opportunity, glamour and reinvention. What better time to dive headlong into the throng? - Chinese characters throughout the book and on maps makes navigating Shanghai easy - Bonus colour chapter on Shanghai's glittering architecture - Expanded coverage of outlying destinations, including rural Lizhang and lush Putuoshan - Contains essential phrases but a Lonely Planet Mandarin phrasebook is also recommended