Insight Pocket Guide Beijing (Insight Pocket Guides Beijing)
Edition: Pap/Map Up edition
Publisher: Langenscheidt Publishers
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9789812582010
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; Travel Guides; Travel - Foreign; Travel; China; Asia - China
First sentence: The well-worn image of Chairman Mao standing on Tiananmen Gate (Gate of Heavenly Peace) and proclaiming the founding of the People's Republic of China, is symbolic of Beijing's history the city's rise has been violent and uncertain.