Lonely Planet guidebooks confiscated in China

There have been 30 reports in the last 18 months from travelers who say their Lonely Planet China guidebooks have been confiscated at the border. The map inside the book depicts China and Taiwan as separate countries.

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China bans and confiscates Lonely Planet due to the Taiwan issue 2 years 13 weeks ago

China now has a new policy of banning Lonely Planet books and is confiscating Lonely Planet books from tourists who are coming in to travel in China. The reason for that is explained to be due to the Lonely Planet's different coloring for China and Taiwan suggesting that they are different countries.

What the Lonely Planet Doesn't Tell You 1 year 43 weeks ago

ApeRifle's flipside rant to counter the glowing PC-ness of LP's China guide.

Worth a look.

Blogger "Zola" detained, interrogated, punched, sent home via plane 51 weeks 4 days ago

[Zola] reports that he is home safe in Changsha after being detained in Shenyang, interrogated, made to write detailed reports on everybody he met and everything since arriving in Shenyang to blog about the Yilishen "ant-farmer" protests, had his ID confiscated, punched around the head and neck.

Cool Beans 5 weeks 2 days ago

Beijing Gourmand takes a trip to what has been called "the hippest chuanr joint on the planet".

Obama, Faith, Alcohol, and the Future of the Planet 4 weeks 7 hours ago

Conservatively, 80% of my students had no idea that today was the big day and half of that number thought Barack Obama was either a Japanese card game or the starting forward for the Miami Heat.

China, this is Burma calling, can you hear me? 29 weeks 6 days ago

State media have been updating on the climbing death toll as the scale of the cyclone disaster unfolds, but in the same manner that they might report a minor landslip on the other side of the planet. Newsflash: this is happening next door - so pull your fingers out!

Things Asian - China 1 year 38 weeks ago

Asian blog site which aims to inform travelers about their specific destination from other travelers that live or have been there.

The by-line says...
Experience Asia through the eyes of travelers.

Death for ex-Party chief 1 week 4 days ago

China doesn't play when it comes to embezzlement! Li Dalun, former Party Secretary of Chenzhou, was given a death sentence with two years' probation, and had his personal property confiscated for accepting bribes totaling 14 million yuan ($2 million) and possessing unaccountable assets worth 18 million yuan, the Changsha intermediate people's court ruled yesterday.

The truth about Tibet, now in book form 34 weeks 19 hours ago

Danwei reports a new book has been rushed to completion that lays bare the "truth" behind the Lhasa riots last month. The book "Lies and the Truth" cites such reliable and truth-worthy sources as People's Daily, Guangming Daily, China News, and Xinhuanet... handy at a road-side pitstop I'm sure.