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Insider's Guide to Beijing 2008 | 
 enlarge | Author: Immersion Guides
Creator: Adam Pillsbury
Publisher: True Run Media
Category: Book
Buy New: $15.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 31032
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Pages: 768
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0980138604
EAN: 9780980138603
ASIN: 0980138604
Publication Date: November 1, 2007
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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 40 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 photos 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.
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SAVIOR in Beijing August 9, 2008
How else are you going to tell the cabbie that you want to go to the Kerry Center Hotel? I speak Mandarin, but didn't know the Chinese names, not to mention the Chinese addresses to the restaurants, bars, and touristy things that I wanted to get to! Unless you have an iPhone (and can use the hoodhot Beijing taxi guide app), this is essential for navigating Beijing!
Essential Guidebook for All March 30, 2008
I've been living in Beijing for almost ten years. My wife and I live by this book, and our visitors from abroad use this as their comprehensive reference for their Beijing visits as well. Great book for expats and tourists alike!
 Pretty good, could do without the smartassness February 5, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a useful guide overall in it's scope.
That being said.. It could do without the constant smartass "tongue in cheek" tone that pervades Asian expat publications though, as the writers come off as patronizing at times. Some of the page long articles are rather useless diatribes.
Indispensible February 3, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
Essential guide for any Beijing resident December 7, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Finally got my copy from the friendly Friendship Store on Changan Jie. My wife (a Beijinger) and I own a real estate service for expatriates in Beijing and always have a copy on hand, as do all our consultants, Chinese and foreign. The depth and accuracy of information is impressive. Unlike many guides, little or none of the content is re-hashed from previous years. Both entertaining and informative, it's an essential reference for native Beijingers, expatriates and students alike. Tourists wanting an insight into contemporary Beijing might consider it too as it's filled with anecdotes. However, sparse coverage of historical aspects of the city.
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