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15) Hong Kong
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128 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm + 1 folded-out map.
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English
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Compact and affordable, Fodor's 25 Best Hong Kong is a great travel guide for those who want an easy-to-pack guidebook and map to one of the most exciting cities in Asia. Fodor's 25 Best Guides offer highlights of major city destinations in a compact package that includes a sturdy, detailed street map you can bring along with you to help you navigate when cell service is not available. By focusing only on top sights--all divided by neighborhood --...
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xvi, 296 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan. Knowing nothing about China, or even how to use chopsticks, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conversations, and, per a Communist dean's orders, jumped into teaching his students about the Enlightenment, the stock market, and Beatles lyrics. Soon he...
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xxi, 322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 26 cm
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English
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Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows 3,000 miles, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down. In this surprising book, radio journalist Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes Route 312 from its start in the boomtown...
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329 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
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English
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While a student living in China in 1994, Dunlop vowed to eat everything she was offered no matter how alien and bizarre it seemed. But is it possible for a Westerner to become a true convert to the Chinese way of eating?
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