Insight City Guide: Shanghai (Insight Guide Shanghai)

City Guide Shanghai is a full-color guidebook to China’s most modern city. Our Best of Shanghai recommendations will help you make the most of your time, selecting the city’s must-see sights, such as the elegant Former French Concession, the Shanghai Museum with its collection of prized Chinese artifacts, and peaceful Lu Xun Park. In-depth essays explore the Shanghai’s past, its booming economy, vibrant arts scene and unique architecture. Other topics include where to eat hairy crabs, where to see Shanghai rock and where to shop for unique designer goods. A detailed Places section covers all the major sites, such as the Bund with its beautiful buildings recalling the city’s colonial past, the upmarket Xintiandi district with its bars and restaurants, and the narrow lanes of the Old City, which offer a glimpse of a vanishing way of life. We give readers comprehensive, opinionated hotel and restaurant recommendations for each area of the city, plus shopping and nightlife listings and a wealth of practical information to guide you around the city. Over 600 specially commissioned color photographs bring the many facets of Shanghai, and its surroundings, to life. Navigation is made easy with 17 detailed color maps linked to the text by numbered dots, plus a 16-page indexed street atlas.

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Top Sights       

History/Culture:

The Bund          

Former French Concession          

Lu Xun Park          

M50          

Oriental Pearl Tower          

Shanghai Museum

Shanghai Urban Planning Centre          

Xintiandi          

Yu Garden and Bazaar          

Editor’s Choice          

China’s Futureworld

The Shanghai Story

Business and Economy

Performing Arts

Visual Arts

Cuisine

Shopping

Shanghai Nights

The Rollicking 1930s          

Writing in Shanghai          

A Feast of Hairy Crabs          

Shanghai Rocks          

An A–Z of the Bund          

Red Shanghai          

Jewish Sanctuary          

Street Snacks          

Shanghai Chic          

Shanghai Deco          

Shanghai Museum          

Life in the Lanes          

Cutting-Edge Art at M50      

Places:

The Bund and Beyond          

People’s Square          

Nanshi          

Fuxing Park and Environs          

Huaihai and Hengshan          

Jing An          

Xujiahui and Longhua          

Hongqiao and Changning          

Hongkou          

Pudong          

Western Suburbs and Chongming Island          

Excursions from Shanghai          

Travel Tips:

Transport

Accommodation

Shopping

Actvities

A–Z of Practical Information