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hi i am planing to Shanghai or Tokyo. With fiancee and I want to. Help end here thanks?

hi guys now have a one. Best to go to Tokyo. Or Shanghai hotel. Would you like to suggest that i saw. Good price on priceline anyone try before. Or blank i am totaly lost here I do not. Want to spend my money. I am certain that boring or ugly. i want to have fun more hotels. Exciting. Issued a new travel pleasse help. I thank you.

Of course I am. In Shanghai and found the city. Very interesting. Really it. With the purpose of. And as you travel. It depends on your budget. Of you. You can find the hotel. Shanghai has been very good. It's very easy to find hotel. Good night for less than $ 100. - Hotels in Hua Shan Road Xinguo a good one. Taxi and a subway. Very cheap. Many restaurants. Good and relatively good prices. Tokyo is also interesting. But very very expensive experience. That's my limit.

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I don't understand the prices for apartments in Shanghai on Craigslist, can someone explain "CNY"

Okay, I'm wanting to move to China for a little while, so I've been looking for places on Craigslist. The prices, though, aren't expressed in U.S. dollars, and I don't know how to interpret them. Here's a couple examples:

$1=7 CNY

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Interview With an American Photojournalist in China

Q&A with Tom Carter, author of CHINA: Portrait of a People

American photojournalist Tom Carter has spent the past four years in the People’s Republic of China, traversing all 33 provinces and autonomous regions not just once but twice. The San Francisco native’s hardback book, a definitive 800-image volume aptly entitled CHINA: Portrait of a People, is due out this winter from Hong Kong publisher Blacksmith books. Tom took a day off from travelling to discuss the challenges of taking pictures in China, how he evaded censorship in the tightly-controlled republic, and to share a few insider tips on visiting what is to become the world’s largest tourism market.

Your upcoming book focuses heavily on photographs of people, from peasants to punk rockers, ethnic groups to entrepreneurs. As a lone foreigner in a faraway country, how did you approach so many strangers, let alone become intimate enough with them to take their portraits?

Most of my photos came about as a natural result of my curiosity and interaction with chinese people during my travels. It wasn't until the end of my trip that I thought about compiling them into a book. This is a tribute to all the people I met along the way. For the portraits, it just takes a sincere interest in your subjects to get that close. I don't believe in hiding behind a zoom lens; I was actually as near to all those people as you see in the pictures, sometimes just inches away. The candid life shots, which comprise a good third of the book, were actually more of a challenge. As a foreigner walking down the street in China, all activity stops the moment you are seen, so it’s tricky to photograph life before life stops to stare at you.

I don’t believe any book can capture the true spirit of a country with only pictures of places. Sure, a photo of a sunset over the Great Wall is nice, but what do you really learn from it? I wanted to show the people, and dispel the stereotype of the Chinese as a homogeneous single nationality.

You must speak the language pretty well.

That's the very first question I always get from other expats I meet in China! It humbles me to admit that my Putonghua borders on offensively poor. I taught English when I first arrived in China, which left me no time to formally study mandarin. I picked up my entire vocabulary while travelling. I call it Survival Chinese. I can communicate, but I'm usually left out of the gossiping granny circles. A friendly smile works well when all else fails. I might add, though, that Chinese dialects vary widely by province, so even most nationals have trouble understanding other Chinese outside their own hometowns.

You say you came to China as an English teacher, but four years later you’re a published photojournalist and author. Did you plan this career move?

Never, but that’s China for you, a real land of opportunity. teaching was just a means to an end, which was travelling. Out of that first long year on the road sprung my collection of photos, which resulted in a book contract and travel assignments from various periodicals, which brought me full circle back to my second spin around China. I believe I stand apart from my contemporaries in that I'm not sitting around a cushy foreign correspondents’ club "networking" [makes mock quotes with his fingers] and waiting for my next assignment; I'm out on the road finding my own. But maybe that’s why Reuters still hasn’t called me.

You’ve had a few run-ins with Chinese censorship of your images and articles. Care to share?

The concept of Freedom of the Press, something the west takes for granted, is still entirely alien in Communist China. The media is state-run and every single word and image that comes in and out of the country needs to be approved by the Ministry of Information. Crazy, huh? But since I’m an independent freelancer without the backing of any news agency, I lack official journalist credentials. Most of my images I've had to get the hard way, which has often resulted in confrontations with local authorities who view foreign correspondents as a threat.

For example, for the three single frames of coal miners with soot-covered faces that appear in this book, I and my Chinese travelling companion had to spend several days in the mountains of South Shanxi before we were able to sneak into a coal mine, grab a few shots then get the hell out before being caught. Mining is one of the most dangerous and controversial occupations in China, and is entirely off limits to journalists. Some of my best photos are hit-and-run like that.

There’s one incident in particular I want to hear about: a peasant riot that you photographed and which almost got you arrested. Tell us about that. To be caught up in a proletarian uprising – something both foreign and Chinese reporters in China rarely even hear about, due to rapid suppression of information, let alone eye-witness – was extremely frightening but probably one of the book’s most powerful images. I was subsequently "implored" by the local police to hand over all my photos, under penalty of incarceration, but a couple have managed to slip into the book [winks mischievously]. I'm still in China and would like to be able to leave without a trip to the clink, so it’s not something I can talk about in further detail, nor can we make the photo public until the book is on the shelves.

Guerilla-style documentary photography is something you are obviously proud of. Someone said you have "turned mundane daily life in China into a work of art" but one reviewer wrote that your photographs are "an assault on ordinary people who should be left alone." What's your take on such extreme responses?

Which one was the criticism? [Laughs] Actually, I prefer the term ‘street photography’, because that's exactly what I do. I'm out pounding the pavement from 6am to 6pm every day, learning about the culture through observation and interaction. Many photojournalists cover their assignments as quickly as possible so they can remove themselves from the elements, but I revel in the elements. I don’t have any technical or artistic preconceptions to my photos. The whole idea of spending an hour setting up a shot and then photoshopping it to death afterwards is not what I'm about. I just capture life as it is, then move on. If the picture turns out crooked, so what! Life is crooked!

I have no desire to make something palatable, even if it means not getting on Getty. On the other hand, any of my photos that are considered beautiful I credit entirely to my subjects. They are the ones who deserve the compliments.

China really is a vast country to explore, and you have been to every corner of it – 33 provinces and over 200 cities and villages. Travelling for a living sounds like a life of leisure, but what’s the reality?

You know, for all the tourism I’ve promoted for China with my photos and travel articles, you’d think the CNTA [China National Tourism Administration] could at least have comped my hotels. But the truth is I’ve never received a cent in financial backing. During the two years I spent travelling across China, I slept in 15 RMB [2 USD] flophouses with particleboard walls – which are illegal for foreigners to stay in – with the occasional youth hostel or night on a bus station floor. I taught English for two straight years beforehand so I could save up to travel, and I really had to pinch my pennies to make it last. The upside is that my insolvency resulted in experiences that staying at the Sheraton could never produce.

All travellers are running away from something. What's your excuse?

I come from a long line of nomads – my mother a Danish immigrant of good Viking stock and my father a hybrid Panamanian-Cuban-Italian – so drifting is in my blood. It’s my dream to travel the world, take pictures and write about it. I have no intention of succumbing to that thirtysomething syndrome of settling down. The world is my home.

So what day-to-day difficulties did you encounter during your marathon journey across China?

You mean hour-to-hour difficulties. My photos might excite a lot of potential tourists, but I'm not going to sugar-coat the reality of actually travelling in China. The consensus among backpackers is that China is probably the single most challenging country in the world to navigate. Aside from the obvious language barriers, you have 5,000-year old customs and extreme cultural differences that can be quite vexing for the typical westerner. Most of these nuances are not something that you can catch on film; travellers have to discover them for themselves, and that’s part of the fun.

What keeps you going?

I delight in the challenges that a country like China poses to westerners. Sure, I occasionally catch myself pounding the wall in frustration, but the thing about the PRC is that every turn is a new adventure. For me there’s nothing worse than being bored, and boredom is just not possible in China. See these lines on my face? They weren’t there before.

How did you plan your routes?

I haven’t planned a single route since I arrived in China four years ago. I just point myself in a direction, then let life carry me on its current. Not only does every Chinese person you ask where to go have an excitedly different opinion – even about which way is north – but there are so many undiscovered villages that are off the charts. Not to mention that the time it takes to get to these places is often days longer than how it appears on a map, making an itinerary kind of pointless.

Tell us more about surprises along the way, and any dangerous situations you’ve been in.

Surprises are the rule, not the exception. In addition to clashes with the authorities over my pictures, I’ve had everything from a near-lethal bout of encephalitis during my first year in China, to getting shanghaied by crooked English schools, which I wrote about for the Wall Street Journal. One of my favourites is the time I found myself at the business end of a North Korean machine gun when I accidentally crossed into the DPRK at Changbaishan. These are all stories I can laugh about now, though my mother doesn't think so.

It’s said that China is now undergoing the most prolonged period of sustained change in history. How has it changed since you have lived there, and how will it change in the near future?

I think China's most dramatic changes have been brought on by itself and that the now-clichéd term "New China" was something methodically planned out in their boardrooms. The Chinese government is addicted to what I call hyper-urbanization. You’ve got historic cities like Beijing, where they are bulldozing these ancient hutongs by the hour so they can build office towers, or the 2,000-year-old village of Gongtan in Chongqing that is going to be levelled this summer for a new power plant. I wrote an article about Gongtan for a local magazine but it was quickly quashed because the censorship bureau said "We don’t want to bring any attention to that place." These contrasts in architecture appear in my book because I feel it is imperative to capture this last glimpse of China’s old slate rooftops before the skyline becomes pure steel and glass. CHINA: Portrait of a People will probably become a history book, something Chinese people will look at twenty years from now and say "Ah yes, I remember."

It seems like everyone wants to know more about China these days. Do you see more people planning on visiting the country?

China will become the world’s largest tourism destination of the next decade, no doubt about it. The 2008 Beijing Olympics and Shanghai’s World Expo in 2010 are expected to attract between 50 to 100 million tourists annually. China’s doors were closed for so long that it’s only natural the world is curious about what’s behind them. What the pictures in Portrait of a People are doing is fuelling this curiosity by offering an intimate glimpse of humanity in China, and scenes of daily life that even publications like National Geographic overlook.

You’re something of an authority now on Chinese travel. Can you offer any tips for travellers?

Well, what China wants tourists to see is often at variance with what is actually marvellous about the country. You’ve got these highly-sheltered tour group packages that cover the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Terracotta Warriors in Shaanxi, a boat ride on the Yangtze and shopping in Shanghai [makes yawning noise]. Or you can remove yourself from the souvenir shops and luxury hotels, get a local street map and travel on word-of-mouth. Lonely Planet would go bankrupt if people actually took my travel advice, but you definitely see more of the real China my way.

Finally, what's next for someone who’s been everywhere in China?

My publisher and I have been talking about taking the "Portrait of a People" concept to other countries in the region. I would jump at the chance. So I have no idea where I’ll be this time next year.

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About the Author

TOM CARTER is the author of 'CHINA: Portrait of a People,' a definitive 600-page book of photography to be published by Hong Kong publisher Blacksmith Books.

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Beijing is located in northern China is second largest city in China next to Shanghai and the capital of the People's Republic of China. Beijing is a transportation hub. Increasing important in the overall economy of the country. It is also where many international flights arrive and leave.

Beijing holds the political center of chinese culture and education. Beijing is one of the four great ancient capitals of China is an important place in history once again hosts the summer Olympics. 2008 Games.

Was Beijing 2,008.

Go. Beijing 2,008 is all that will take more planning. If you arrive in Beijing for Summer Olympics. Game, it should reserve as soon as possible. If you only travel to Beijing for business or for pleasure is very easy to organize. Most international flights to China. Will come to Beijing Capital International Airport. In fact, the flight to Shanghai,. China, tend to arrive first in Beijing and the flight from London to Hong Kong are often routed through. Beijing airport. When the Chinese stop for whatever reason,. Airport in Beijing is often the best outcome. Flight from England to arrive in Beijing at least two times per day and number of flights will increase. Such as Summer Olympic Games 2,008 ways.

Airport is located near Beijing. Shunyi, about 20 km northeast of Beijing. Most of the airlines in China and large. Airline cheap to arrive and leave. Beijing Capital International Airport, the main hub, Air China.

One will be from Beijing Airport to the city. The Airport Expressway. This estimate. 40 minutes by car depending on traffic and other highway to be completed before summer. 2008 Beijing Games. Also be light. Rail system to transport people from the airport to the city.

In Beijing 2008.

Search in Beijing during the normal. Time is often relatively easy. If people arrive in Beijing for business or holiday, many hotels selected. This is not the case that Beijing is almost no hotels in. The early development of China, which caused social and economic conditions. But since has seen a significant increase in the number and quality of the hotel.
Now there many hotels to choose Beijing as well. Best Western, Hilton and several international hotel chains. These hotels cater to business travelers as a holiday. goers. from one airport to meet directly with these hotels, transportation and other information on the hotel such as location and price their rooms also.

Shopping and eating in Beijing. 2008.

When a business in Beijing for a place to buy and eat may not be at the top of the list of things to do. However, during down time. Or holiday, one can find many places in the city center to do some shopping and dining. The central business district in the area. Guomao is the best place to search. Shopping within. This area also has high-end housing as many regional headquarters and national organizations.

Also in this area can find many interesting people. Restaurants to eat at the main plant area. Beijing in local food. Including a large food shopping trolley,. Corn and vegetables grown close to. To provide food in the city.

Places to see in Beijing 2008.

When one in Beijing for any reason, you may want to take in the view. Many local facilities. Although business travel should take a few hours and see one of the most important tourist places in all of China, the main access forbidden. City. More interesting. The sights. Badaling Great Wall of China, Summer Palace and National Parks.

Beijing Olympics 2008.

Beijing will be another. Referred to the famous summer. 2008 Olympic Games will be held in this city. August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008. Most of the activities will be held in Beijing, the Beijing National Stadium; However, some activities will be held in other cities in China.

Prize of the Beijing Olympics. 2008 marks the turning point in history, actually. Chinese authorities see these. Games of chance in Beijing, as well as to highlight up and down. World Power. If you wish to travel to Beijing for the games is a good idea to provide. Travel advance.

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This article is about the Maglev and subway system in Shanghai. You can find some useful information in it if you are planning your China vacations now.

After you arrive at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport (you can visit Travel2ChinaInfo Dot COM if you need more info about the Shanghai airfare and Shanghai airports), you can try the Maglev (Magnetic Levitation Train) here. This Maglev of Shanghai is built with the most advanced technology from Germany. It only takes you 7 minutes from the airport to the downtown of Shanghai (a subway station named Longyanglu). You can then take the subway from Longyanglu to other places of Shanghai. One good thing I found about this Maglev is that you can get a 20% off if you show them your airline tickets. In this case, this Maglev will only cost you 40 rmb to get to the Longyanglu subway station. (some tips: the last Magnetic train starts from the Shanghai Pudong International Airport at 5:00 PM. You can take the Line 2 airport bus if you missed this last Magnetic train. This airport bus will cost you only 19 rmb.)

The subway system of Shanghai is advanced and lots of people think it is more convinient than the taxi or bus. You can take the subway to almost all the notable places of Shanghai. Currently, there are 3 main subway lines in Shanghai: Line 1, Line 2 and Line 3 (Line Mingzhu). The Line 1 and Line 2 can reach most tourist destinations and big shopping malls of Shanghai. By taking the Shanghai subway, you don't need a tour guide for your Shanghai travel anymore. Just a subway map of Shanghai will be enough for you.

The subway of Shanghai is fast and it only takes 2 minutes from one subway station to another. You don't need to worry about the traffic jam if you choose the subway. The cost is low: the price starts from 3 rmb and only costs 6 rmb to take you from the downtown to the suburbs of Shanghai. The subway trains here are clean and comfortable. You can watch the TV shows if you get bored in the subway train.(you can visit Travel2ChinaInfo Dot COM if you need more info about the Shanghai airfare and Beijing airfare)

Some tips for taking the subway in Shanghai:

1. Get in: There are several entrances for every subway station and you can find signs near every subway station,  which tell you how to get to the subway entrance.

2. Buy ticket: Now all the subway stations of Shanghai are using the magnetic card tickets. You can buy your tickets at the ticket vending machines in the subway stations. The Shanghai Public Traffic Card(SPTC) is another good choice. This SPTC will cost you 100 rmb, including a deposit of 30 rmb. It is a rechargable IC card and you can do the recharge at every subway station of Shanghai. This SPTC can be used in the bus, ferry, subway and taxi. It is very convinient. If you are a tourist here in Shanghai, you can choose the ticket vending machines. But for the people who need to stay in Shanghai for a while, the SPTC will be a better choice. You can save a lot of time waiting in the line to buy your tickets every time you take the subway. (you can visit Travel2ChinaInfo Dot COM if you need more info about the Shanghai airfare,China vacations and Beijing airfare)

3. Transfer: The Renmin Square(People Square) is the transfer station for Line 1, Line 2 and Line 8. The Gongshan Park station is the transfer station for Line 2, Line 3 and Line 4. You can see the subway map in the trains and this will show you where to get off or transfer to another subway line.

By Shane Lee. Date: 06/03/2009.

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Is there a Filipino with experience at Manila airport with departure passport control?

My partner will be traveling to Shanghai to meet me for a vacation. He has a valid tourist visa from the chinese consulate in Manila, but is concerned about departure procedures at Manila airport. It is his first time to travel to a foreign country and we want everything to go smoothly. Other than his boarding pass, valid passport, and valid visa what other documents are necessary for him to show the Manila departure passport control? The travel agency gave him a "disembarkation card" already filled out, and a hotel voucher. He will, of course, pay the airport tax at the airport before going through passport control.

I do not suppose there should be any other procedures involved since he carries complete documents that are required for his exit from the Philippines.

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What is the cheapest way to buy domestic airline tickets in China and Southeast Asia?

I am going to China, Thailand (hopefully!), Vietnam and Cambodia from October 12 to January 3. We will be travelling in those countries extensively, and are on a somewhat tight budget. The less money we spend on travel, the better. We are flying into Hong Kong and will book our domestic inter-city chinese flights there. We are going from Hong Kong to Shanghai to Beijing to Xi'an to Guilin, then back to Hong Kong. We are looking for any tips to get these flights cheap. If anyone knows of a discount travel agent in hong kong, that would be great. Similarly, We are flying into Bangkok from Hong Kong, and will need to book our southest asian flights there. Any tip for that? Thanks Alot!!!

Cheap air tickets in China are available by waiting until a few days before your travel date, then buying the tickets in the town where you're departing from. Tickets are usually available at steep discounts, 30%, 40%, even 50% off. Ask around at different agencies because they don't all offer the same discounts. It is very difficult for internet outlets to match the prices of storefront sales agents so I always buy my tickets in person.

NOTE: Do NOT TRY THIS near the start and end of holiday periods, the start and end of the school year, and other popular travel dates. The worst days are probably around Oct 1, Oct 7, May 1, May 7, and two weeks on either side of Chinese New Year. If you want to travel during those times, buy your ticket way in advance and be prepared to pay full price.

During non-peak seasons, it would be very rare for all seats to be sold out on all flights on the day you want to travel. Major routes like Beijing-Shanghai have dozens of flights daily. There is almost always something.

During summer holiday times, popular vacation spots like Lhasa are frequently booked solid but often empty seats will appear the day of the flight because agents have book-blocked groups of seats and end up with smaller groups than they expected, hence last minute cancellations.

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Shanghai is China's most cosmopolitan city. What was once a fishing town is now one of the country's commercial centers (the other is Hong Kong). With impressive architecture including futuristic skyscrapers, and endless shopping opportunities, it's a must for every tourist.

The city, situated in the east of China at the banks of the Yangtze river delta, has a roaring past. For a long time it was the largest port of the chinese Empire, but in the early 19th Century it fell in British hands. Later Americans, the French and the Japanese controlled parts of the city.

Many migrants from Europe and America came to Shanghai and the city became the biggest financial center in the Far East. In 1949 the Communist Party of China took control. Foreign companies left and went to Hong Kong, but with the reforms in 1992 the city regained its economic force.

There are now 18.6 million people living in the municipality. The city is divided into many districts. The nine disricts at the west bank of the Huangpu river govern Puxi, the part of the city that is often called the old town.

Most residents live in Puxi. If you are searching for shopping, entertainment and culture, you should go to Puxi. People have nicknamed the city the "Paris of the East" and you will find this no surprise once you've been to Puxi. The newer part at the east bank is Pudong. It's Shanghai's commercial and financial hub, with an impressive skyline, dominated by the Oriental Pearl Tower (a 468 meters high TV tower) and the Jin Mao Tower (420 m).

Thanks to its history, this city will get you a taste of "east meets west". With modern architectural marvels among traditional Chinese buildings, it's no wonder why many around the world are flocking to this busy metropolis to enjoy every bits of the action.

Some tips:

Walk along the Bund, the city's most popular boulevard, at the end of the Nanjing East Road at night and get a good view of Pudong, across the Huangpu River.

Shopping is likely to occupy most of your time and the most interesting shops are around Xintiandi and the French Concession.

Hang out in the narrow alleys and shopping mall of Xintiandi, known as "Yesterday meets tomorrow in Shanghai today" and you can see well-heeled expats and locals hang out.

Stroll along Dongtai Lu Antique Market, an open air street market which is the best place to take home memories of your Shanghai trip.

Also, don't miss the Shanghai World Financial Tower, a brand new 101-story tower which will measure 492 meters and include a hotel with 175 rooms.

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my girlfriend and i want a safe and reasonal priced accomatdacion in shanghai any tips and can anyone help us

I was in Shanghai on 2 occasions for work. I was there for about a month each time, and stayed at the Crowne Plaza Shanghai (the old Holiday Inn (taxi drivers know it as this)). The Crowne Plaza is very nice (4 star) and reasonably priced (about $110/night including nice breakfast buffet). As far as safety, you shouldn't worry. Shanghai is pretty safe, and crime is fairly low. I did not feel to be in any danger when walking the streets alone at night.

I found flights for very cheap through best travel store: www.bt-store.com. I got a r.t. flight from Boston, MA for about $700 on Northwest.

Get business cards at anyplace you might want to go again, they are your tickets for taxi travel (unless you speak mandarin)

Definitely take the Maglev to and from the Pu-Dong Airport.

The subway system there is awesome, and super cheap about $0.50 for a decent trip. It is really new and clean and easy to get pretty much anywhere in the city. They have automated vending machines that are very easy to use if you don't know Mandarin.

Shanghai is an awesome place, you will not be disappointed. It will be a life-changing visit, trust me.