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Information and maps
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A vital source of
English-language information
about current events in the city is the excellent and free expatriate-run monthly
Shanghai Pictorial,
available at most hotels and upmarket restaurants.
Shanghai Talk
is another good periodical offering frank advice on the latest happenings. The tourist bureau publishes the English-language newspapers,
Travel China: Shanghai Edition
and
Shanghai Today,
both with a heavier emphasis on current events articles and less emphasis on restaurant and nightlife listings.
Various glossy English-language
maps
are also available, with clear information on streets and sights - including the Shanghai Official Tourist Map, which is paid for by advertising and is issued free in hotels and in the Renmin Square subway station. Additionally, bus routes can be found on the Shanghai Communications Map, though this map has street names in Chinese only. English maps are available in the large hotels, bookshops and the tourist kiosk at the north end of the Renmin Square subway station. Street vendors all over town sell Chinese maps. Other useful information
for tourists (each section contains more specific sub-sections): |
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China,
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