Beijing
Getaway take you on a tour of the Beijing, the host city of the 2008 Olympics. More on video Temple of heaven Old Beijing on rickshaw Shopping in Houhai The Great Wall of China Shanghai Leshan Buddha Thursday, May 8, 2008 As the world knows, the ... [... more]
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The Great Wall, China
Don visited the Great Wall of China at Mutianyu, 90 kilometres north of Beijing. World Heritage listed by UNESCO in 1987, the Great Wall is probably the most widely recognised and enduring symbol of China. In fact, it is said, "The man who ... [... more]
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Zhang Wei from HarperCollins Publishers
Zhang Wei is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, an organization for which he has served as the vice-chairman of the Shandong branch. He is one of the most widely respected fiction writers of the post-Mao era, and he lives in Beijing. [... more]
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Shan Sa from HarperCollins Publishers
Shan Sa is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Empress and The Girl Who Played Go (winner of France's Goncourt Prize). Born in Beijing, she moved to Paris in 1990. She is also a celebrated artist who has had prominent exhibitions in ... [... more]
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Da Chen from HarperCollins Publishers
Da Chen is the author of Colors of the Mountain, a New York Times bestseller; Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing; Brother; and two books for children, Wandering Warrior and China's Son: Growing Up in the Cultural ... [... more]
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The Girl Who Played Go
Shan Sa was born in 1972 in Beijing. In 1990 she left China for France, where she studied in Paris and worked for two years with the painter Balthus. Her two previous novels were awarded the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman and the Prix Cazes. As ... [... more]
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Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson is the Berlin bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. In 2001, when he was the Journal's Beijing correspondent, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Falun Gong. He lives in Berlin. Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winner ... [... more]
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Carolyn Choa
Born and educated in Hong Kong, Carolyn Choa works as a film producer and choreographer in London. David Su Li-Qun was resident playwright at the National Union Theatre in Beijing until emigrating to England in 1984. Since then he has taught at ... [... more]
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Judith Michael
Bestselling author Judith Michael brings together the magic of East and West in a tale of heartwrenching love as vivid and breathless as the pounding energy of exotic Beijing. In a story replete with passion and enduring desire, A CERTAIN SMILE ... [... more]
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Annie Wang
Annie Wang was born in 1972 and grew up in Beijing. She came to the United States in 1993 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1996. She worked in The Washington Post's Beijing bureau before becoming a contract ... [... more]
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Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff was born in Boston and lives in London. She is the author of How I Live Now and Just In Case My biography will prove incredibly inspiring to anyone who wasn't born in Beijing or Kathmandu, wasn't sent to school in Switzerland or Peru, ... [... more]
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Best time to travel
Head for the snow in winter and the islands in summer... But to get it right, you may want to check out when the perfect time is for you to travel. Manihi Island, Tahiti. Beijing, Asia. Mt Egmont, New Zealand. Friday, January 18, 2002 Head for ... [... more]
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