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| China (National Geographic Traveler) | 
 enlarge | Author: Damian Harper
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Category: Book
List Price: £14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 450571
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 1426200358
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9781426200359
ASIN: 1426200358
Publication Date: February 12, 2007
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Condition: UNREAD but may have a crease or mark or minor imperfections. In stock - Sent fast from British booksellers.
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A Wonderful book written for westerner, by westerner November 19, 2007
This wonderful book has been written truly on the western traveler's point of view, by a western author! As a Chinese reader, or especially Chinese government may feel uncomfortable about some topics like Tibet or communist party. The author is very sensitive to the European colonization history in China, he pays a lot attentions to the concessions, treaty ports, European style buildings, Christian churches, invasions which happened or built during last century and still survives on any resort.
As a Chinese, I have never heard of the mountains of Lushan in Jianxi province ever being a paradise of westerners. The author wrote:
"At the end of the 19th century, Europeans and Americans came in droves to clement Lushan in Jiangxi Province to escape the oppressive summer heat of nearby Jiujiang and the Yangtze River. Their houses remain, symbolic of a vanished era. As with other foreign centers in China, Lushan was almost a complete society, with post offices, hospitals, schools, and its own police force. Residents bought their provisions from stores along the road called the Gap."
A Chinese reader as I needn't to read this kind of books for tourism information, maybe just for fun, or maybe for spying some secret mind of a western people. Albeit, this book worth reading, especially for anybody preparing to explore this grand country.
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