{"id":1879,"date":"2005-11-17T19:17:33","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T11:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2005-11-17T19:17:33","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T11:17:33","slug":"plug_for_insiders_guide_to_bei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/trends-and-buzz\/plug_for_insiders_guide_to_bei.php","title":{"rendered":"Plug for Insider&#8217;s Guide to Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"insidersguide.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/images\/insidersguide.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 160px; font-size: 7pt; font-weight: bold; clear: both;\">Big book of Beijing<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Danwei recently commented on a story in the San Francisco Chronicle in which the reporter ignorantly said that the Great Hall of the People was a difficult place to gain admission to.<\/p>\n<p>People who want to avoid mistakes like that are advised to buy a copy of the Insider&#8217;s Guide to Beijing: a comprehensive guide to living in Beijing. It&#8217;s got all the phone numbers you need to avoid sounding like an ignoramus when trying to reserve events in supposedly top secret commie hide-outs.<\/p>\n<p>You can buy the book online, for delivery both in and outside of China (link below).<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: your correspondent contributed to the business chapter of the book.<\/p>\n<div class=\"LinksAndSourcesHeader\">Links and Sources<\/div>\n<div class=\"LinksAndSourcesText\">\n<ul>\n<li>Danwei on SF Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/archives\/002317.html\">How to bamboozle a gringo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidersguide.com.cn\/\">Insider&#8217;s Guide to Beijing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big book of Beijing Danwei recently commented on a story in the San Francisco Chronicle in which the reporter ignorantly said that the Great Hall of the People was a difficult place to gain admission to. People who want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/trends-and-buzz\/plug_for_insiders_guide_to_bei.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends-and-buzz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}