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This book is essential for anyone who will be staying in Beijing for more than a few weeks.Much of the information is to do with finding permanent accommodation, legal worries for residents, clubs and societies.how to get a mobile phone, schooling for children, and so on. There's an exhaustive list of travel agents, and coverage of sights outside town is more comprehensive than any other guide (including accommodation local to those sights). Its coverage of shopping and entertainment is the most comprehensive available.
Beijing Guidebook author Brian "Max" McClain, is a 35-year-old graphics designer, writer, editor and cartoonist from New York. A 1985 graduate
of Duke University, Mr. McClain relocated to Beijing 1995 to serve as Art Director for Beijing Scene, an English-language newspaper serving the capital's expatriate community. Following the demise of Beijing Scene in 1997, Mr. McClain went on to write, edit and produce his guidebook to Beijing, entitled simply, The Beijing Guidebook. Mr. McClain also cartoons about Beijing under the pen name "Max". His farcically edgy cartoons, well-known and much-loved in the Beijing expatriate community, interpret expat life and the "Beijing Experience". Numerous Max cartoons can be found peppered throughout The Beijing Guidebook . Max is currently serializing a graphic novel about Beijing in the pages of City Edition, Beijing's new expat paper of choice.
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