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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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Scocca, Tom.
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 :
unveiling
the
capital
city
of the
future
/ Tom Scocca.
by
Scocca, Tom.
Riverhead Books, c2011.
Call #:
915.1156 S421b
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 (hc.)
1594487847 (hc.)
Description:
370 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Published simultaneously in Canada"--T.p. verso.
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.
Summary:
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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