By the city's breeze

Author: Liu Yida
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This book is one of the "Beijing Eye Series" books, which are all about Beijing. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1: Urban Observations; Part 2: Survival Imagery. The content includes: Beijing teahouses, a tavern on Tianqiao, Beijing's hairdressing shops, the rise and fall of bathhouses, cyclists and bicycle repairers, Beijing's "board carriers," taking the bus in Beijing, the "six strange phenomena" of land transactions, common people buying wholesale, the last shopping spree, Beijing people's views on prices, Beijing people's livelihoods and "rice bowl" disputes, Beijing's beautiful women leaving luxury hotels, the troubles of coins, taxes and taxpayers, and so on.

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