Beijing welcomes you : unveiling the capital city of the future / Tom Scocca.
2011
DS795 .S33 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Beijing welcomes you : unveiling the capital city of the future / Tom Scocca.
Author
Scocca, Tom.
ISBN
9781594487842
1594487847
1594487847
Imprint
New York : Riverhead Books, 2011.
Language
English
Description
370 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
DS795 .S33 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
951/.15606092 B
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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"Published simultaneously in Canada"--T.p. verso.
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Table of 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.
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.