Unlike most guidebooks for Xi'an which focus entirely on the terracotta army, this pocket guide gives it only a cursory description focussing, instead, on the entire prehistory of the region starting with the Neolithic Banpo pottery sites, then working through the many other imperial burials. temples and stelae in the vicinity with a final chapter on the region's folk customs and handicrafts.  Includes eight pages of photographs, a regional map showing the location of imperial sites and a fold-out plan of Xi'an city.  Paperback.  104 pages.  Text in English.  Cat No 3576