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Title: Lonely Planet Beijing (Lonely Planet Beijing, 4th Ed) by Caroline Liou, Robert Storey ISBN: 1-86450-144-8 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A guide that needs much more work and accuracy...
Comment: The Beijing City guide, is one of poor quality that lacks a lot of information, I was just this past Christmas and New Year on a holiday trip and I was frankly disappointed. These guide included some really inaccurate information on restaurants, the maps are totally inaccurate and the information given is scarce. I really expected more seriousness in this guide -being a Lonely Planet one- that leaves me asking why is Lonely Planet guides so popular? With the maps on this guide instead of finding my way, I got lost! As for the information, it was OK but just imagine trying to find a restaurant that does not exist. Well I think there might be better guides out there.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good city guide, getting worse
Comment: In general, I consider Lonely Planet (LP) as one of the best publishers which excels in thick, detailed guide books that describes in "text" the best attributes of a city or country. LP is not a book with pretty tourist stock photos. If you want pretty pictures, I recommend the Insight Guides which have at least 1 per page. After looking at a half dozen Beijing (BJ) city guides, this book excels again in describing Zhongguancun, where others fail.
Zhongguancun, (Zgc) is like a Chinese Silicon Valley, or computer business development area near Beijing and Qinghua Universities (p149-50) in the older 3rd edition. Zgc is an important hi-tech area for tycoons, business, and consumers alike to find computers and software localized for China. It is located in the Haidian District, NW Beijing, near Haidian Rd and Zgc Rd following the 4th Ring Rd, far outside the Metro ring. Zgc is just south of the Old Summer Palace area. This area is probably best accessible by bicycle, taxi, light rail, and bus. It is about 4 miles (6km) NW of the northwestern-most metro ring station at Xizhimen. Zgc is listed in the index.
In the Insight Guide (p198), I saw a Zizhimen light rail stop about 1 mile away from Zgc.
LP/BJ 3rd ed (0-86442-547-3), also has a two maps to get a good view of Zgc and the downtown districts, Map 3 for overall Beijing and 10 for the Haidian district. Map 10 also shows the Zgc bus stop with nearby hotels, restaurants, internet cafe, brewery, and universities. This edition has 11 maps.
However in LP/BJ 4th ed (1-86450-144-8), Zgc is still listed (p53). Zgc is lost in the maps with only 7 maps, ersatz replaced with 20 pages of pretty stock tourist pictures. I believe LP's editors have stepped in the wrong direction here. Lets hope that they get it right before the 08 Olympics. I read this in the local library.
I noticed that LP/BJ 5th ed (1740592816), with a new author is scheduled to be released this month, 10/02.
Rating: 1
Summary: Horrible Guidebook
Comment: I returned from Beijing last week after spending about 2 weeks in the city. I had and used the Lonely Planet Beijing guidebook extensively. It was at least partially wrong about almost everything. Museums, resteraunts, and other things it recommended were closed. Every phone number was wrong. The guidebook lacked useful information about how to get places, how to orient self, and hours of an establishment. Also, the guidebook was judgmental. I think it is the worst guidebook I've ever used.
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Title: Lonely Planet Cambodia (Cambodia, 4th Ed) by Nick Ray ISBN: 1740591119 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Argentina Uruguay and Paraguay (Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, 4th Ed) by Sandra Bao, Ben Greensfelder, Carolyn Hubbard ISBN: 1740590279 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Hong Kong, Macau (10th Edition) by Damian Harper, Steve Fallon, Stephen Fallon ISBN: 1864502304 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Red-Color News Soldier by Li Zhensheng ISBN: 0714843083 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia by James R. Lilley, Jeff Lilley, Jeffrey Lilley ISBN: 1586481363 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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