* - Time Out Beijing (Paperback)

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.

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