Insider's Guide to Beijing 2008

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 768 pages
• Published by: True Run Media
• Edition: 4th Edition November 1, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0980138604
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0980138603
• Book Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 2 pounds

Product Description
This is the Beijing guidebook other Beijing guidebooks wish they could be. We tell you what's happening right here, right now, all over Beijing, because we live here. So do our forty specialist contributors. With this book, you'll learn which songs will melt hearts in a Beijing karaoke bar, who has the best deal on antique furniture, how to take your landlord to court, and what Mandarin language program is for you. Along with all this wisdom goes the wit that has become the trademark of the Insider's Guide to Beijing over the years. Fully updated for the countdown to the 2008 Olympics, crammed with listings of hundreds of shops, bars and restaurants, lavishly illustrated with more than 750 full color photographs by the capital city's best photographers, the Insider's Guide to Beijing is indispensable for residents and tourists alike. This edition also comes packaged with an up-to-date, fully bilingual pullout map of Beijing and its Olympic venues, printed on waterproof, tear-resistant paper stock. Stop looking for the key to the city. You are holding it in your hand.

Reader Reviews
This book navigated us through the city for two weeks, spot on. We saw the historic sights and emerging China, a lot of if from a local angle. And the restaurants! Great book.