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Featured Categories : Travel & Holiday : Countries & Regions : Asia : China

• China (Lonely Planet Country Guide)

  Damian Harper

  
  
   

• Hong Kong and Macau (Lonely Planet City Guide)

  Andrew Stone, et al

  
  
   

• Wild China: The Hidden Wonders of the World's Most Enigmatic Land

  Phil Chapman

  
  
   

• The Rough Guide to China (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

  David Leffman, Simon Lewis

  
  
   

• Mandarin Phrasebook (Lonely Planet Phrasebook)

  Anthony Garnaut

  
  
   

• Hong Kong (Lonely Planet Encounter)

  Steve Fallon

  
  
   

• Red Dust

  Ma Jian

  
  On very rare occasions, a book can be so fresh, vivid and sincere that its integrity will be apparent almost before you have begun reading it. This brilliant account of a three-year exploration of China during the first wave of economic liberalisation following the death of Mao Zedong is one such book.

  In Red Dust, Ma Jian tells the story of how, on his 30th birthday, facing arrest for spiritual pollution in his journalistic job in Beijing, he fakes an attack of hepatitis and flees into the Chinese hinterland. Uprooting himself from a bohemian lifestyle and his estranged wife and child, Jian walks vast distances and immerses himself in the remotest parts of China. Travelling clandestinely, and with little or no money, Jian survives by doing odd jobs and publishing poetry and short stories through his network of literary friends. At the same time, he has amazing adventures: on one occasion he finds himself lost in the desert with no water for three days; later on he has to scale a huge cliff with no equipment.

  There is nothing emasculated or sanitised about this genuine adventure. Jian is forced to live from his wits. At one time he has to mug his own muggers back to rescue his camera; then he scrapes a living by selling scouring powder as toothpaste. These escapades, beautifully translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew, are told in an understated and elegant style, and, with Jian's status as both an insider and outsider, provide a complete portrait of what life is like for ordinary Chinese people in a way that no foreign writer could ever emulate. By turns poetic, wise and brave, Red Dust is worthy of a place alongside other great books of Chinese literature, such as The Mountain Village and Wild Swans, as both a classic work of travel writing and a compelling meditation on the spiritual bankruptcy of an age when all humanity's Gods have been shattered. --Toby Green

  
   

• China (Eyewitness Travel Guide)

  
  
   

• Trans-Siberian Railway (Lonely Planet Country Guide)

  Mark Elliott, Robert Reid, Simon Richmond, Mara Vorhees

  
  
   

• Atlas of China

  National Geographic

  
  
   

• "Time Out" Hong Kong (Time Out Hong Kong)

  Time Out Guides Ltd

  
  
   

• Seven Years in Tibet (Paladin Books)

  Heinrich Harrer

  
  
   

• China Road: One Man's Journey into the Heart of Modern China

  Rob Gifford

  
  
   

• Trekking in the Nepal Himalaya (Lonely Planet Walking Guides)

  Stan Armington

  
  
   

• The Travels of Marco Polo (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

  Marco Polo

  
  Modern scholars have questioned the veracity of Marco Polo's account, but there's no doubt that his description of his travels through the Mongol Empire of the Middle Ages--with its spices, exotic animals, rare jewels and dancing girls--is enchanting. --Kathleen Keefe
  
   

• River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

  Peter Hessler

  
  
   

• Living and Working in Hong Kong: The Complete, Practical Guide to Expatriate Life in China's Gateway

  Rachel Wright

  
  
   

• Shanghai (Lonely Planet City Guide)

  Damien Harper, et al

  
  
   

• Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China

  Paul Theroux

  
  
   

• Hong Kong "Wallpaper*" City Guide ("Wallpaper*" City Guides)

  Wallpaper* Magazine