China Survival Guide: How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps
This first-ever humorous travel guide on China both dishes the dirt on the myriad travel mishaps that may befall any unsuspecting tourist and explains how to avoid them! Possible danger zones debunked include airports, hotels, hospitals, taxis, and bathrooms. Readers will learn essential skills like how to haggle, exchange currencies, cross the street, decipher menus, say useful phrases in Chinese, and more. The guide comes complete with survival tips on etiquette, a map, and resource lists. Don't leave home for China without it!
Veteran travelers Qin and Larry Herzberg are Chinese language and culture professors at Calvin College in Michigan.
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About the Author
Larry and Qin Herzberg are a married couple, and are both professors of Chinese language and culture at Calvin College in Michigan. They travel to China every year, both with students and without.
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Good buy
I got this for my Mum who is planning to travel to China next year and she is absolutely thrilled with it! I think it has been an eye opener for her and she is feeling much more prepared about her trip now.
Hilarious Survival Guide
This little book is great! Has good tips and is very funny to read. My Mom and I recently went to China and found many of the authors points to be right on. I liked this book better than the formal guidebook.
Old China Hand Says This Book is Most Helpful
Most of the reviews for this book are raves, which it deserves.
The last review, however, mysteriously pans it as a false picture of China. As an old China hand, who still visits China every year, I'm afraid the one negative review is due to the fact that this person only went to Beijing during the Olympics. Not only is Beijing not typical of most of the rest of China, with the most orderly traffic, for instance, but Beijing was really "sanitized" for the Olympics.
Traffic was limited, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers were forced to return to their hometowns for the interim, and most Beijingers stayed away due to the giant influx of foreigners. This person hardly saw the "real China".
In any case, I'd highly recommend this book to anyone traveling to China, particularly independent, adventurous ones.
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