China 14 (inglés) (Lonely Planet) Paperback – June 22, 2015

Really handy guide to take in your phone or tablet, just look things up as you go - no need to have a big heavy book in your backpack

This is a good book covering the whole country, but since China is so vast it's impossible to provide much detail on particular locations in China. If you will be visiting any regions for which more detailed guidebooks are available, I strongly suggest you to buy the regional or city guidebooks as well. Infrastructure improvements are so rapid in China, even a newly published guidebook like this one will be out of date in some respects especially on transportation--there are new highways and high speed trains between cities, and new metro lines in cities, not shown in the book. So you need to check online or locally for the latest information. I used the internet to choose hotels as this book can have only a small sampling of available hotels. But this book was very useful for finding points of interest to visit.

I used this extensively. China is too big for this to cover it all, and I wish it was newer, but it was very helpful.

This is an excellent source of information. We ended up buying the digital version as well and used it on our iPhone and iPod as we traveled around China.

A very good introduction Nanjing, Shanghai, and their surrounding areas. I would have appreciated more information about the history and culture of Suzhou.

The major problem I had with this guide is that it was too friggin' heavy and bulky. It was nice that in one book I had a reference guide for all of China, as my scheduled commercial trip visited several locations, though when I was in Shanghai I wished very much that I had bought the individual Shanghai guide that had more information as well as neighborhood walks. Now that I'm looking at China Lonely Planet guides online, I see that there are also guides for areas besides Beijing and Shanghai, and I would suggeest getting the individual guides if possible, since they are lighter and have more relavant information, depending upon where you are visiting. China is just too big and complex of a destination to fully contain in one guide, as I learned.

Even though this book is not the most recent, it still has basically the same information and it's slightly cheaper. Good find.

Anyang is out of this Guide, the guide dont feature information about this natural heritage listed by Unesco. Then I looked to Dengfeng is not its on the map on pag 8 and 9 (China Map). It is in an internal secondary map and no further information is way below my personal level of expectation. From a reputed guide such as this, and according Lonely Planet own response, they have neglected to include Anyang in their book. On their own posting to me, through a complaint directly to them, they have acknowledged their oversight, but did not offer any further compensation. Jiaozuo is not included in Contents, so I finally stopped to use this Guide, its not for people interested in the history of China. (Shang and Zhou).