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The Rough Guide to Shanghai is the ultimate insider's guide to China's brash new megacity. With clear maps of every neighborhood and detailed coverage of city attractions, this fully updated guidebook will help you discover the best Shanghai has to offer. Detailed practical advice covers great places to eat and drink, inspiring accommodation, and the most exciting places to party. All the major and offbeat sights are covered, from the gleaming new World Financial Centre to the avant-garde arts center, Moganshan Lu. And, if the pace of the city gets too frenetic, The Rough Guide to Shanghai includes all you need to know for great day trips to tranquil canal towns such as Tongli and Suzhou. Easy-to-use maps, with color subway guides and the Pinyin and Chinese characters, plus expert advice makes The Rough Guide to Shanghai your ultimate traveling companion.
About the Author
Simon Lewis is a novelist and screenwriter, born in Newport, Monmouthshire, in 1971. He went to school in Monmouth then studied Art and Art History at Goldsmiths College in London. After graduation he travelled extensively in Asia before beginning work as a travel writer for Rough Guides publishing. He has since worked on five editions of the Rough Guide to China and is sole author of the Rough Guide to Shanghai and the Rough Guide to Beijing. His first novel, Go, a thriller about backpackers, was written in a village in the Himalayas. It was first published by small press Pulp Books in 1998, but, following favourable press, was picked up by Corgi(1999). It has since been translated into Swedish, German and Italian. His second novel, Bad Traffic, is a crime thriller about people smugglers. It was published in 2008 by Sort of Books, and in 2009 by Scribner in the US. It has been…
