Journey to Beijing - Books to Read

Here are some books that I can recommend to anyone thinking of visiting Beijing. You can buy them right now by clicking on the book title, which takes you direct to that book at your Amazon on-line store

Lonely Planet Beijing (Beijing (Lonely Planet), 3rd ed)Lonely Planet Beijing City Guide
by Robert Storey
This guide offers the essentials on places to stay and eat for both business and independent travelers, plus an easy reference to excursions and shopping and a helpful Mandarin language section. in color. 23 maps.

Insight Guides Beijing (China Series)

China: A New History
by John King Fairbank, Merle Goldman
The late John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. This book remains a masterwork without parallel - a concise and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman has brought the book up to date with a chapter on events in the post-Mao period and a new preface and epilogue. She provides a detailed account of the wide array of changes - social, economic, cultural, and even political - that have taken place in China over the past two decades.