Beijing and Shanghai (DK Publishing)

I highly recommend all D&K; travel books. This one was the same quality as I have used in the past. Excellent! My first trip to Shanghai was made even better with this book. Excellent photos and content.

This book served as an excellent resource for us on our recent trip to China. It includes all of the tourist sites as well as guided walks. The pictures were nice, too.

The main strength of the DK series is the photography, however the descriptions are also good. If you need a hotel and restaurant guide then this is not your book, but then i have found most restaurant recommendations in other guides to be suspect anyway. This is a very compact guide taken largely from their China Guide. It does also include day trips.

Since my wife and I would be going to China in 2009 (to see the next total eclipse), I wanted to "get the lay of the land "so to speak and find out more specifically what the cities had for us and more. While we would be on a tour, I still wanted to know more for myself as well as being able to tell more on the videos, websites and presentations I would create. I looked at about 10 books that I thought were good and covered what I wanted. I wanted to find more about not only the sights and traveling (mostly we would be in and around Shanghai and Beijing before and after the eclipse and because of this would not need a book that would include other parts of China)but more about the sights, monuments, art, museums;architecture and more. The layout of the book is splendid. What I really got this book for was the nice color illustrations, photos, maps.It is light enough for me to take with us. The information does have text that is small but that is because the book packs so much usefu... Read more

It was my first time in China and I went to both cities. The book was very informative, complete, well illustrated, and easy to read. Everybody in my group kept asking me to read it. I got to see other people's books and they did not come close. I strongly recommend this book.