Travel to China

Culture Shock! Shanghai: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! at Your Door)

Format: Paperback
Author: Rebecca Weiner
ReleaseDate: 30 November, 2005
Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company
Rating:

Poorly organized and out of date
Useful pieces of knowledge are often buried in the middle of long blocks of text instead of being highlighted or placed within easier to find tables. Information covered is broad but shallow. The index is of little help as it is small and cursory. Beware of using contact information as some groups/businesses/locations have changed or no longer exist. Some is just flat out wrong. I tried to pick up a set of the plasticized location flash cards for use with taxis as described on pg 112 from the Am Cham office but they had never heard of them. They even copied the page and book information to tell the publisher that their information was wrong. A far more useful guide for expats moving to Shanghai is Passport Shanghai. It's more difficult to find but it's well worth it.

Great read for anyone relocating to Shanghai
The chapters on visas, housing & goods relocation offer well written advice that is easily worth the price of the book. I highly reccomend this book to anyone relocating to Shanghai.

It also provides a great overview on Shanghai's history, Shanghai's people and doing business in Shanghai. While other books cover all of these subjects in much more detail, I find this book offers a great overview for someone who has a billion other things to prepare before any relocation.

The guided walking tours offered in the book were accurate and interesting.

A great airplane read overall.

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