Hangzhou

Author: Chen Gang Lan Pei Jin
Editor: Chen Gang
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Publishing Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Many guidebooks have appeared in China dedicated to Hangzhou, the city of Heaven described by Marco Polo. Now, added to those is Hangzhou, the first English guidebook of its kind in China. This book has five outstanding features.
Author Bio: Chen Gang was born and educated in Hangzhou. To date, he is the only Tour Guide Extraordinaire in East China's Zhejiang Province and the only professor from the English Language and Literature Department of Zhejiang University since January 1982. He began serving as an English-speaking guide interpreter and later as a manager of the Euro-American Department of China Travel Service. He is the author of West Lake Poems, the chief translator of A Trip to Mountains and Rivers in Zhejiang Province, one of the few official translators of the Macmillan Encyclopedia, and his couplets have been featured in national and provincial academic publications.