Antique yet up-to-the-minute, familiar yet unrecognisable, outwardly urban but quintessentially rural, conservative yet path-breaking, space-age but old-fashioned, China is a land of mesmerising and eye-opening contradictions.

Inside this book

    11 intrepid authors
    198 maps
    76 temples & monasteries
    100s of noodle spots
    Beijing & Hong Kong pull-out map
    Special Great Wall feature

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