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Beijing welcomes you : unveiling the capital city of the future / Tom Scocca.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scocca, Tom.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scocca, Tom.
- Americans.
- Travel.
- City and town life.
- Beijing (China)--Description and travel.
- Beijing (China).
- Beijing (China)--Social life and customs.
- City and town life--China--Beijing.
- Scocca, Tom--Travel--China--Beijing.
- Scocca, Tom--Homes and haunts--China--Beijing.
- Americans--China--Beijing--Biography.
- Beijing (China)--Biography.
- China--Beijing.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 370 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- Beijing has debuted as the defining city of the now and foreseeable future, and China as the ascendant global power. Beijing is the ultimate representation of China's political and cultural capital. Scocca arrived in 2004 as an American eager to see another culture, and preparations were in full swing to create a renewed city.
- 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
- Cold medals
- The artist
- Triumph. Achilles
- One world
- Public relations
- Going home. Liftoff
- On the road
- Memory.
- Notes:
- "Published simultaneously in Canada"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 9781594487842
- 1594487847
- OCLC:
- 610849518
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