author: Alex Chapin Jin Zhang asin: 0071592121 binding: MP3 CD list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 USD

It’s like attending the Olympics with your own personal guide!

iSpeak Chinese Phrasebook, Summer 2008 Edition, provides you with instant access to just the right Chinese word or phrase, as well as useful lexicon specific to the Games. With iSpeak Chinese Phrasebook downloaded into your iPod, you can make yourself understood quickly and confidently. That’s because with iSpeak Chinese, you both see and hear hundreds of words and phrases as they are spoken by native speakers.

author: James K. Yuann Jason Inch asin: 9812814396 binding: Hardcover list price: $29.50 USD amazon price: $29.50 USD

The Beijing Olympics in 2008 marks the beginning of an era of new business opportunities in China for 1.3 billion Chinese and the rest of the world. For investors, marketers, and businesspeople who want to understand the new drivers and business chances of the Chinese economy, Supertrends of Future China is the definitive guidebook.

asin: 1933782641 binding: Paperback list price: $24.95 USD amazon price: $24.95 USD

On ba yue ba hao ba dian ling ba fen, the auspicious 8th day of the 8th month of 2008 at 8.08 pm, the Games will begin! China steps onto the world stage as the nation voted most likely to shape the 21st century. What an opportunity for millions of people around the world-sports fans as well as those who simply love the pageantry and global camaraderie of the Games to learn about China and its history, culture, and customs. China Gold: China's Quest for Olympic and Global Glory is not only about the Beijing Olympics and Chinese sports but also about China itself past, present, and future.

author: Jasper Becker asin: 0195309979 binding: Hardcover list price: $27.95 USD amazon price: $18.45 USD

When the world descends on Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, it will find the results of a helter skelter rush for modernization and wealth. In the course of a thousand years, temples and shrines, palaces, and gardens had filled the walls of old Peking. Its narrow, twisting streets held the
collective memories of five dynasties and turbulent events of the 20th century. It has now all been swept away to make way for a new city filled with dull, boxy high rises, rows of shopping malls, office towers blocks, and residential housing developments marching down uniform streets. The City of

author: Fodor's asin: 1400018749 binding: Paperback list price: $11.95 USD amazon price: $9.56 USD

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. While 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!

Fodor’s 25 Best Beijing contains EVERYTHING YOU NEED to experience Beijing, focusing on the top 25 must-see sights plus:

asin: 1423602838 binding: Hardcover list price: $15.95 USD amazon price: $11.96 USD

Journey through Beijing and the magical hutong neighborhood with a young Chinese girl, Zhang Yue, her cousin, and her waipo-Mandarin for "maternal grandmother"-for a day of adventure and tradition in the new book To Grandmother's House. On their way to visiting their waipo, the girls see the sights of Beijing and wander around the shops and markets of the hutong. When they reach their grandmother's house, they get a surprise-Waipo is going to teach them how to make dumplings!

author: May Holdsworth asin: 019590608X binding: Hardcover list price: $24.95 USD amazon price: $24.95

The principal residence of China's emperors for nearly five centuries, Beijing's Forbidden City was long shrouded in mystery, inaccessible both to common Chinese and to visitors from abroad. Exploring the palace's grand rituals and detailing the quotidian processes of its everyday life, this
beautifully illustrated introduction goes beyond standard tourists' guidebooks to provide a detailed picture of the private world hidden behind imperial walls.