The new new China
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, May, 2004 by Steve Friess
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These days, Beijing changes in the blink of an eye. One night, you're at a fantastic restaurant on a street jammed with fantastic restaurants. They're rubble by the next afternoon. That's progress, Chinese style. So go now-before many of the ancient neighborhoods are destroyed to make way for the 2008 Olympics, and before the costs of visiting, already on the rise, start to approach those of Shanghai and Hong Kong.
The attractions you really must see
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Mao's Mausoleum at Tiananmen Square: Out front, watch the locals buy silk flowers for 12ยข, genuflecting-and even weeping-as they lay them at the foot of a Mao statue. (Guards gather the flowers and take them out on carts to resell.) You'll be rushed by the corpse too fast to know whether it's real or wax, then spit out the back among hawkers selling Mao watches, pins, and all manner of ...
