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Scocca, Tom.
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Scocca, Tom -- Travel -- China -- Beijing.
Scocca, Tom -- Homes and haunts -- China -- Beijing.
City and town life -- China -- Beijing.
Americans -- China -- Beijing -- Biography.
Beijing (China) -- Description and travel.
Beijing (China) -- Social life and customs.
Beijing (China) -- Biography.
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Beijing welcomes you...
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Beijing welcomes you : unveiling the capital city of the future / Tom Scocca.
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Scocca, Tom.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2011.
Subjects
Scocca, Tom -- Travel -- China -- Beijing.
Scocca, Tom -- Homes and haunts -- China -- Beijing.
City and town life -- China -- Beijing.
Americans -- China -- Beijing -- Biography.
Beijing (China) -- Description and travel.
Beijing (China) -- Social life and customs.
Beijing (China) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781594487842 :
1594487847
Description:
370 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Capital. Walls -- Alley -- Tear down -- Fog. Authorities -- Fuwa -- Weather -- Good luck. Birth -- Permit -- Get ready -- Welcome. Inside -- Progress -- Clear sky -- Fireworks. New year -- Opposition -- Forest -- Go, China!. Arise -- Public security -- Cheerleaders -- Countdown. Scorpions -- Tidy up -- 8/8 -- Opened. Competition -- Gold medals -- The artist -- Triumph. Achilles -- One world -- Public relations -- Going home. Liftoff -- On the road -- Memory.
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A portrait of contemporary Beijing evaluates its role as a defining city in a China that has become an ascendant global power, drawing on the author's visit to the region prior to the 2008 Olympics, where he interviewed scientists, developers, and policyplanners charged with transforming the city.
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