China Survival Guide: How to Avoid Travel Troubles and Mortifying Mishaps
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- ISBN13: 9781933330518
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This first-ever humorous travel guide on China both dishes the dirt on the heap travel mishaps that may befall any unsuspecting tourist and clarifies 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 perfect with survival tips on etiquette, a map, and resource lists. Don’t place home for China lacking it!
Veteran travelers Qin and Larry Herzberg are Chinese language and culture professors at Calvin College in Michigan.
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“…[O]n the printed notice, they had inadvertently left out the letter “o” from “count.” This comment was establish in Chapter 4, “What to Expect (and Inspect) at Your Hotel,” Location 377-82 in the Kindle edition. Okay, so a typo is a typo, but the authors make a tasteless joke out of it. By Chapter 2, I was already questioning whether I should read the book; but their beside the point and inappropriate comment in Chapter 4 was the decisive factor for me. I am returning the book for a refund.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is fantastic! It is an simple and very enjoyable read! I recommend it to anyone traveling to China or for pure amusement. I have read many books about china and this has to be the best one yet!!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Unbelieveable that this book was published in 2008. I read the book painstakingly while preparing for my trip to Beijing for the Olympics. Myself, along with my host who lives in China, really disagree with what is written in this book. China is a wonderful place and really different than what this book leads one to judge. I reflect the people who wrote the book haven’t been to China in a few years. Don’t buy, gives you the incorrect perspective on people, uneducated about culture.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this as a gift. It turned out to be a delightfully helpful small guide for the recipients.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This guide to China is simple to read, entertaining, but most of all, extremely useful. It contains all sorts of information about and tips for navigating the everyday situations that a traveler will find themselves in such as standing in line, ordering at a restaurant, using taxis, traveling on trains, managing squatty potties, crossing the street, finding a hotel, navigating the crowds, going to a hospital, and most importantly, doing all these things in a polite and culturally acceptable way. It contains many amusing antidotes from the authors’ travels which help prepare the Americans for what they will find odd about China and the Chinese, yet at the same time presents the warmth, generosity, and beauty of the Chinese people. This guide contains much information not establish in the predictable guidebook and is an absolute must for anyone traveling to China!!!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5