This book is excellently written.The book included many great details about china and chengdu.For the average reader,it is very descrptive and pretty interesting.There are some entertaining parts such as the story telling and the stories behind the food.The tips section is very useful as tit tells you where to go and how to get there.The links are going to be very useful.The references to actual people's thoughts and feelings about chengdu were very nice.