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Your Keys, Our Home

Author : Debbie and Michael Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781539014645
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Your Keys, Our Home written by Debbie and Michael Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever dreamed of casting off your worldly possessions and traveling to your heart's content, this story about two intrepid seniors will inspire you no matter your age. Michael and Debbie Campbell felt they had one more adventure in them before considering retirement in the traditional sense, so they filled two rolling duffel bags with life's essentials (including their own pillows) and hit the road. Three years later, having sold their home in Seattle, their "Senior Nomad" lifestyle has no end in sight. Ride along as they share tales of living full-time in Airbnbs in over 50 countries and pay tribute to the many hosts who not only helped them live daily life, but also offered unique opportunities to experience their cities. From the barber's chair in Dublin and the dentist's chair in Split, to a wild motorcycle ride in Athens, a peek behind the Soviet Curtain in Transnistria, and the demise of a chicken for dinner in Marrakech, hosts made the Campbell's dream of adventure come true. Discover how Debbie and Michael find their next Airbnb, how they get there, and the many ways they enjoy their new city just as the locals do. Learn their tips and tricks for using Airbnb and how they get the most out of each stay, all while spending little more than they would have spent settled into their rocking chairs in Seattle.

The Last Days of Old Beijing

Author : Michael Meyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779123
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Old Beijing written by Michael Meyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.

Beijing Comrades

Author : Beitong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558619074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Beijing Comrades written by Beitong and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beijing Comrades is the story of a torrid love affair set against the socio-political unrest of late-eighties China. Due to its depiction of gay sexuality and its critique of the totalitarian government, it was originally published anonymously on an underground gay website within mainland China. This riveting and heart-breaking novel, circulated throughout China in 1998, quickly developed a cult following and remains a central work of queer literature from the People's Republic. This is the first English-language translation.

Beijing

Author : Margaret Kelly
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400008182
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beijing written by Margaret Kelly and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences. Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in Beijing! •Updated frequently,Fodor’s Beijingprovides the most accurate and up-to-date information available in a guidebook. •Fodor’s Beijingfeatures options for a variety of budgets, interests, and tastes, soyoumake the choices to planyourtrip of a lifetime. •If it’s not worth your time, it’s not in this book. Fodor’s discriminating ratings, including our top tier Fodor’s Choice designations, ensure that you’ll know about the most interesting and enjoyable places in Beijing. •Experience Beijing like a local!Fodor’sBeijingincludes unique photo-features that impart the city’s culture, covering bustling markets, weird and wonderful operas, the vast Forbidden City, memorable Great Wall trips, and much more! •Indispensable, customized trip planning tools include “Top Reasons to Go,” “Word of Mouth” advice from other travelers, and tips to help save money, bypass lines, and avoid common travel pitfalls. •Our crisp, clean maps have even more depth and detail. A pullout city and four-color transit maps make it easier than ever to sail in, out, and around town. Visit Fodors.com for more ideas and information, travel deals, vacation planning tips, reviews and to exchange travel advice with other travelers.

Beijing

Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400017394
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beijing written by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information on accommodations, restaurants, cultural sites, shopping, and nightlife in Beijing.

Midnight in Peking

Author : Paul French
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101580380
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Midnight in Peking written by Paul French and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.

Leftover in China

Author : Roseann Lake
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393254631
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Leftover in China written by Roseann Lake and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Factory Girls meets The Vagina Monologues in this fascinating narrative on China’s single women—and why they could be the source of its economic future. Forty years ago, China enacted the one-child policy, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences, it resulted in both an enormous gender imbalance—with a predicted twenty million more men than women of marriage age by 2020—and China’s first generations of only-daughters. Given the resources normally reserved for boys, these girls were pushed to study, excel in college, and succeed in careers, as if they were sons. Now living in an economic powerhouse, enough of these women have decided to postpone marriage—or not marry at all—to spawn a label: "leftovers." Unprecedentedly well-educated and goal-oriented, they struggle to find partners in a society where gender roles have not evolved as vigorously as society itself, and where new professional opportunities have made women less willing to compromise their careers or concede to marriage for the sake of being wed. Further complicating their search for a mate, the vast majority of China’s single men reside in and are tied to the rural areas where they were raised. This makes them geographically, economically, and educationally incompatible with city-dwelling “leftovers,” who also face difficulty in partnering with urban men, given the urban men’s general preference for more dutiful, domesticated wives. Part critique of China’s paternalistic ideals, part playful portrait of the romantic travails of China’s trailblazing women and their well-meaning parents who are anxious to see their daughters snuggled into traditional wedlock, Roseann Lake’s Leftover in China focuses on the lives of four individual women against a backdrop of colorful anecdotes, hundreds of interviews, and rigorous historical and demographic research to show how these "leftovers" are the linchpin to China’s future.

Beijing, Beijing

Author : Feng Tang
Publisher : AmazonCrossing
ISBN 13 : 9781477827499
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Beijing, Beijing written by Feng Tang and published by AmazonCrossing. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1990s, as China continues to embrace--and grapple with--the global market economy, Qiu Shui and his friends attend med school, an ambition that has more to do with getting out of the country than with actually becoming doctors. Following the exploits of a young student and his classmates, from drinking binges, sex, and playing video games all night to military training, homework, and college-age high jinks, Beijing, Beijing provides an inventive, hilarious, and incisive look into how a culture--and one man--struggle to reconcile their past with the changes brought by modern times. As the years pass and friends, family, and lovers move on, Qiu Shui confronts the loneliness and confusion that define his generation.

Last Days of the Mighty Mekong

Author : Brian Eyler
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 178360722X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Last Days of the Mighty Mekong written by Brian Eyler and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated for its natural beauty and its abundance of wildlife, the Mekong river runs thousands of miles through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Its basin is home to more than 70 million people and has for centuries been one of the world's richest agricultural areas and a biodynamic wonder. Today, however, it is undergoing profound changes. Development policies, led by a rising China in particular, aim to interconnect the region and urbanize the inhabitants. And a series of dams will harness the river's energy, while also stymieing its natural cycles and cutting off food supplies for swathes of the population. In Last Days of the Mighty Mekong, Brian Eyler travels from the river's headwaters in China to its delta in southern Vietnam to explore its modern evolution. Along the way he meets the region’s diverse peoples, from villagers to community leaders, politicians to policy makers. Through conversations with them he reveals the urgent struggle to save the Mekong and its unique ecosystem.

Nights in Beijing

Author :
Publisher : 五洲传播出版社
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nights in Beijing written by and published by 五洲传播出版社. This book was released on with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beijing China

Author : Amelia Boman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781674517094
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Beijing China written by Amelia Boman and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the beautiful curated photographs (in color) of Beijing in China The photos captures the quintessential stunning landmarks, scenery and architectural buildings of the country and city from day to night without no words (texts) This full page picture book will make a great home coffee table decor accessory or as a gift for a loved one 8.5" x 11" / large size Glossy softcover

Foreign Babes in Beijing

Author : Rachel DeWoskin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393059021
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Babes in Beijing written by Rachel DeWoskin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a “fiery” life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture but also creating it as the sexy, aggressive, fearless Jiexi, the starring femme fatale in a wildly successful Chinese soap opera. Experiencing the cultural clashes in real life while performing a fictional version onscreen, DeWoskin forms a group of friends with whom she witnesses the vast changes sweeping through China as the country pursues the new maxim, “to get rich is glorious.” In only a few years, China’s capital is transformed. With “considerable cultural and linguistic resources” (The New Yorker), DeWoskin captures Beijing at this pivotal juncture in her “intelligent, funny memoir” (People), and “readers will feel lucky to have sharp-eyed, yet sisterly, DeWoskin sitting in the driver’s seat”(Elle).

Beijing Coma

Author : Ma Jian
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374110178
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Beijing Coma written by Ma Jian and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, racked by contradictions, and a seminal examination of the Tiananmen Square protests, "Beijing Coma" is a novel spiked with dark wit, poetic beauty, and a deep rage.

Beijing

Author : Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781400017393
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Beijing written by Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information on accommodations, restaurants, cultural sites, shopping, and nightlife in Beijing.

My Beijing

Author : Nie Jun
Publisher : Graphic Universe& 8482
ISBN 13 : 1512445908
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book My Beijing written by Nie Jun and published by Graphic Universe& 8482. This book was released on 2018 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Four short stories set in a hutong, or residential alleyway, of Beijing, China. Yu'er, her grandfather, and their eccentric neighbors experience the magic of everyday life."--

Beijing Welcomes You

Author : Tom Scocca
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 1594485801
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book Beijing Welcomes You written by Tom Scocca and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Beijing was closed off to the world, turned inward and literally built around the imperial Forbidden City, the emblem of all that was unknowable about China. But now the capital is reinventing itself to reflect China’s global influence, progress, and prosperity. When Tom Scocca arrived—an American eager to see another culture—Beijing was looking toward welcoming the world to its Olympics, and preparations were in full swing to renew itself. Scocca discovered a city of contradictions—modern and ancient, friendly yet wary, bold and insecure. He talked to scientists tasked with changing the weather, and interviewed architects; checked out the campaign to stop public spitting; documented the planting of trees, the rerouting of traffic, the demolition of the old city, and the designs of a new metropolis, all the while finding the city more daunting, and more intimate. Beijing Welcomes You is a glimpse into the future and an encounter with an urban place we do not yet fully comprehend, and a superpower it is essential we get to know better.

Blue Skies over Beijing

Author : Matthew E. Kahn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169365
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Blue Skies over Beijing written by Matthew E. Kahn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted cities Over the past thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of the most polluted cities in the world are in China. Yet, millions of people continue moving to its cities seeking opportunities. Blue Skies over Beijing investigates the ways that China's urban development impacts local and global environmental challenges. Focusing on day-to-day choices made by the nation's citizens, families, and government, Matthew Kahn and Siqi Zheng examine how Chinese urbanites are increasingly demanding cleaner living conditions and consider where China might be headed in terms of sustainable urban growth. Kahn and Zheng delve into life in China's cities from the personal perspectives of the rich, middle class, and poor, and how they cope with the stresses of pollution. Urban parents in China have a strong desire to protect their children from environmental risk, and calls for a better quality of life from the rising middle class places pressure on government officials to support greener policies. Using the historical evolution of American cities as a comparison, the authors predict that as China's economy moves away from heavy manufacturing toward cleaner sectors, many of China's cities should experience environmental progress in upcoming decades. Looking at pressing economic and environmental issues in urban China, Blue Skies over Beijing shows that a cleaner China will mean more social stability for the nation and the world.