MixedThe Washington Post... an engaging and dynamic narrative that offers readers an unusual perspective on modern China ... At times, the free taxi rides feel like a thin conceptual thread to hold the book together. Also, there are too many familiar stories of iconoclastic rebels and a slight overproportion of well-to-do, English-speaking characters, given the milieu of residents in commercialized, cab-hailing Shanghai. By driving farther off the beaten track to pick up passengers, Langfitt might have found more characters whose perspectives truly surprise us ... offers us a small slice of those stories, in a country with a population just like its cab passengers: going places.
