nice review. does the book spend much time on slightly less-traveled destinations like Xizhou, Shaxi, etc? i wonder how much domestic tourism is geared to a more backpacker-ish or maybe "artistic traveler" demographic and what impact this may have on some places that haven't fully gone the Lijiang route yet... i naively hope a better alternative can be discovered.

by the way, my site recently published a profile of Wheatfield Bookstore, which also gets a mention in the Chinese Yunnan Lonely Planet: pangbianr.com/wheatfield-bookstore-kunming/