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Insider's Guide to Beijing 2007

“The Insider's Guide to Beijing rates as one of the best, new, imaginative and informative guidebooks in a long time.”
—The South China Morning Post

Where can you rent a set of congas in Beijing? How can you import an American muscle car to China? What does the last Emperor's nephew do for a living?

Find answers to these and thousands of other Beijing-related questions in the 704-page Insider's Guide to Beijing 2007, the third edition of Beijing's most comprehensive guidebook.

Rewritten and fully updated to keep pace with its frenetic subject, the Insider's Guide is a treasure trove of practical information on topics like housing, schools, shopping, health care, business registration and the city's fascinating history. It also contains extensive, up-to-date listings of bars, restaurants, sports clubs, excursion spots, art galleries, historical sites and more.

Extremely useful, the Insider's Guide to Beijing is also a pleasure to read, thanks to its dynamic layout and over 120 new sidebar articles by over 30 Beijing-based writers that gleefully delve into Beijing topics both weighty and obscure.