What I learned from this book is to stick to Lonely Planet while travelling. This is just about the worst travel book I've ever read. For example, they gave glowing reviews to the Peking duck of a Shanghai restaurant. As it turned out, this restaurant was inside a hotel. Not even the receptionist knew its name (the address matched and they had Peking duck on the front of the menu, so we knew it was the one). Nobody was eating there. The seats were covered with cloth. I bet the writer just stayed in that hotel and thrashed out his review on a deadline after ordering room service.There has been no thought given to the layout. Trying to find even the most usual travellything (eg. visas, currency, emergency nos., useful phrases), which in the Lonely Planet books is a pleasure, here is a major PITA. Once we found info about the Shanghai maglev train, but later we just couldnt find it again. There was nothing in the index or Shanghai transportation or anywhere logical. Perhaps it was in the description of a train museum in rural Po-dunk or something ("... By the way, if you are ever in Shanghai, you should try the maglev train..."). ( )