Zhang Wei from HarperCollins Publishers
Zhang Wei is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, an organization for which he has served as the vice-chairman of the Shandong branch. He is one of the most widely respected fiction writers of the post-Mao era, and he lives in Beijing. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana
 Travels with Stephanie: The chief thing wrong with this book is that it was written by a journalist. Throughout, our author displays naivete, gullibility, superficiality, and ignorance - the ever-recurring stigmata of Grub Street. Compounding her faults [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Shan Sa from HarperCollins Publishers
Shan Sa is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Empress and The Girl Who Played Go (winner of France's Goncourt Prize). Born in Beijing, she moved to Paris in 1990. She is also a celebrated artist who has had prominent exhibitions in ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Carolyn Choa
Born and educated in Hong Kong, Carolyn Choa works as a film producer and choreographer in London. David Su Li-Qun was resident playwright at the National Union Theatre in Beijing until emigrating to England in 1984. Since then he has taught at ... [... more]
Random House |
Judith Michael
Bestselling author Judith Michael brings together the magic of East and West in a tale of heartwrenching love as vivid and breathless as the pounding energy of exotic Beijing. In a story replete with passion and enduring desire, A CERTAIN SMILE ... [... more]
Random House |
Annie Wang
Annie Wang was born in 1972 and grew up in Beijing. She came to the United States in 1993 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1996. She worked in The Washington Post's Beijing bureau before becoming a contract ... [... more]
Random House |
Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff was born in Boston and lives in London. She is the author of How I Live Now and Just In Case My biography will prove incredibly inspiring to anyone who wasn't born in Beijing or Kathmandu, wasn't sent to school in Switzerland or Peru, ... [... more]
Random House |
Da Chen from HarperCollins Publishers
Da Chen is the author of Colors of the Mountain, a New York Times bestseller; Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing; Brother; and two books for children, Wandering Warrior and China's Son: Growing Up in the Cultural ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Beijing
Tough Task: Since gaining WTO membership and winning the bid to host the 2008 Olympics two years ago, China has been doing a great deal of house cleaning in its major cities. Beijing in particular is currently undergoing an incredible amount of [... more]
CDN$21.95
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Rough Guide Beijing 2e
Reliable, Up-to-Date, Far Better than Lonely Planet: If you plan to go to Beijing and you don't speak Mandarin, you *need* a good guide book. I consistently found this to be accurate, and it gave good advice. I met other travelers using the Lonely Planet, [... more]
CDN$23.99
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Insight Pocket Guide Beijing with Map
Vivid guide to Beijing: I was impressed by the vibrant photos and informative commentary and bought this Insight Guide before my second visit to Beijing. I realized soon afterwards that while this book makes for captivating reading, it's really not that [... more]
CDN$16.02
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Frommer's Beijing
Pretty useful, but missing some important aspects...: I bought this book because it was the most recently published travel guide on Beijing at the time (Dec '03). I have been living in Beijing for 3 months and have been to several of the places the book [... more]
CDN$19.99
Amazon CA |
