Frommer's China
Chapter One
The Best of China
With a landmass of almost 10 million sq. km (4 million sq. miles), plus a further 5
million sq. km (2 million sq. miles) of water, no other single country can even come
close to offering such a vast choice of destinations as the unimaginable vastness that is
currently known as China.
The world's foremost authority on China, Harvard professor John King Fairbank,
declared that "our libraries are filled with writers who know all about China, but could
not see how much they did not know." We concede that we have barely scratched the
surface, especially when we consider that human history in this area stretches back
almost two million years, much further than the much-vaunted "5,000 years of Chinese
civilization," yet even this is hardly a smudge on the ... read full excerpt from Frommer's China ebook
