Hi,
Does anyone know where I can obtain an English version of the Chinese driver's license study book?

I got mine at the traffic bureau.
They will give you an 'original' and you need to take out and make copies.
BTW - The Chinglish questions are hilarious, the questions themselves (as they are supposed to be taken seriously) will make you wet yours pants - too funny.
You also need a 90 to pass.

The traffic bureau in Shanghai I'm assuming?

Some friends and I took the test in Wujiang, Jiangsu last week and it WAS BLOODY HARD! I had studied the questions posted online but these were nowhere close. You're right about the poor translation, the exam questions make very little sense. Prohibitive, indicative, and auxiliary, wtf? We got the book after our first try but it was in Chinese so didn't help at all. They printed out our responses and questions and we went over them with a Chinese friend using the book. We found four answers that were marked wrong incorrectly and the officials just told us to make sure we put in the wrong answers next time we take the test. Most frustrating experience in my 2 years in China.

you can buy the questions here in form of a program
http://www.UbiComputing.de

usually it is provided by the traffic police, when you go to enrol in the drivers license... actually if you do a search in the Google search engine of SHexpat to the left <----- you can find several threads about the procedure to get a Chinese drivers license.

you can have mine. PM me

Some friends and I took the test in Wujiang, Jiangsu last week and it WAS BLOODY HARD! I had studied the questions posted online but these were nowhere close. You're right about the poor translation, the exam questions make very little sense.

Usually the traffic police will give you a printed version of the road code which is in many different languages not just English. You study those verbatim, memorize then sit the exam on the computer... easy... IMO. Got 100% on mine first try... they let me take the book home overnight, since I didn't get into the office until after 4pm and they were closing at 4:30pm. They wouldn't allow me to take the test immediately. So I just turned up at 9am the next day... had my license within an hour... and not just for car either... Car, Truck, Motorcycle, Sidecar... thats all they would give me, out of all the classes I hold from my home country license.

It makes better sense to get the license from a place that has a reasonable number of foreigners as then you are more likely to find they have already paved the way for you...