The ideas and suggestion in this guide have come primarily from personal experience. However, in planning my own trips to China I have relied upon many of the resources referenced throughout the guide. In addition I have learned a great deal from a few friends who work in China’s tourist industry. Thus here I would like to acknowledge the sources that have helped the most for the production of this guide, either directly or indirectly.   Eyewitness Travel Guides: China. NY: Dorling Kindersley Limited, London A Penguin Company, 2005.   Gao, Ge and Stella Ting-Toomey.  Communicating Effectively With the Chinese. Communicating Effectively in Multicultural Contexts Series. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications Inc., 1998.   George Xie, Tour Guide, China Focus Travel, Anhui, China (personal communication)   Hostel China - <www.hostelChina.com>   Hu, Wenzhong and Cornelius Lee Grove. Encountering the Chinese. Yarmouth: Intercultural Press, Inc., 1991.   Jimmy Yin, Travel Agent, Chongqing, China (personal communication)   Lannon, John M., Technical Communication A Custom Edition for Brigham Young University. New York, New York: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2005.   Lonely Planet: China. 9th edition, Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd, 2005   Lonely Planet <www.LonelyPlanet.com>   Margo Gu, Hotel Manager, Chine Regal Cruise Co., Wuhan, China (personal communication)   Realtravel travel guide <www.realtravel.com>