Beijing Walks - Exploring the Heritage

£15.95

With covering almost 400 pages, “Beijing Walks” is a guide that gets to the very routes of the imperial culture that inspired it.

All the tours are placed within their imperial contexts and enlivened with drawings and over 170 colour photographs. The guide offers vital information on everything from feng shui, Pekingese dogs, and Peking duck to Peking Opera and the emperors’ private lives, evoking the sights, sounds and smells old Peking.

Written by Don Cohn, a Chinese scholar who has lived in Beijing for many years, it also contains information on walk-related hotels and restaurants, as well as 15 maps to accompany the walks and their respective sights.