Product Description

Beijing is big news. It's not just the Olympics, which the city hosts in 2008 and which China sees as a key opportunity to bag even more gold medals than at previous competitions. As the nerve centre of China's economic boom, whole swathes of the city have become huge construction sites with glass-walled skyscrapers rising high above the ancient alleyways and imperial palaces. As the government sloughs off a century of Communist dogma, technology, fashion, film and tourism are thriving.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #115016 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
"an excellent source" --TNT Magazine

Review
"hot off the press and provides a good run-down of where to stay, eat, drink and party."

Customer Reviews

A good guide to what's in Beijing
A great guide to making the most of one's stay in Beijing. Although it contains enough information regarding the city in general to ensure you are able to survive, it should not be relied upon as your only source of information if you intend moving between cities or spending much time outside of the center of the city.

Restaurant, bar and attraction listings are great. Hotel listings could be better as they don't cover very many places. I ended up making use of the restaurant and bar guides a lot and all the places were superb.

The way the map and indexes are arranged make for very simple use - especially when you're looking to head to, or find yourself in, a certain area but are unsure what is located there.