Beijing/China Creative Writing and Guidebooks

[dajaphonics]

I have been looking for some China related reading. Just to give you an idea of books that I've enjoyed about China so far are: Jan Wong's "Beijing Confidential" and "Red China Blues" (not sure if you can find this titles in China), Peter Hessler's "River Town", and Paul Theroux's "Riding the Iron Rooster". If anyone has any other suggestions of interesting creative writers who tie in stimulating stories with Chinese daily life and or history I would love to hear your suggestions.

Also, I have the most recent Beijing Lonely Planet but was looking for some other guidebooks here in China. I checked out the Foreign Languages Bookstore yesterday and found a book I believe written by some people from The Beijinger. I didn't write down the name so I don't recall, but it seemed like it may be a better guidebook than Lonely Planet for Beijing. Any suggestions here would be of great help. Thanks.

[gato]

There are books that I can recommend, but they are probably not available in China. So why don't you go check out Chaterhouse Books and browse their selection. They are not bad, but of course it's no Barnes & Nobles.

http://www.chaterhouse.com.cn/en/contactus.jsp

BEIJING 北京:

·　 Shop B107, The Place, 9 Guanghua Road (Dong Da Qiao Road), Chaoyang

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·　1/F River Garden Clubhouse, No.7 Yuyang Road, Houshayu, Shunyi 　

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