Alternative to buying a guide book for Beijing by mke1963
To be honest, the international guidebooks to Beijing are not particularly good (sorry RG and LP authors).However, a useful and free alternative source to them are the archives of Beijing Today, a weekly free newspaper available at some hotels in Beijing. The online version and archives are available at http://bjtoday.ynet.com/
Sadly, there is no index available, but I am hoping to compile one soon.
I wouldhighly recommend this resource: it has enormous amounts of information about culture, history and interesting places in Beijing. Furthermore, they have a feature each week on places near Beijing.
You can access it in html format or download a pdf file of the original page.
