Beijing China has made itself known to the world as the great Dragon of Asia. The largest country in the world, China is now flexing it's economic might, and opening itself, for better or worse, to the West.
Westerners tend to see China first as a Communist country, a natural enemy to the Capitalist West.
But China is growing into something more than just that, and at it's center, leading the way, is the great Capital, Beijing. My first thought of going to Beijing for the first time was Fear. Fear that I didn't speak a word of Mandarin Chinese, but it would be assumed otherwise. Fear that once they found I was a foreigner, I would be taken advantage of. Fear that I would say or do something wrong and get arrested.