Experience Beijing the way the locals do - by bicycle! Four seasonal bicycle tours guide you through Beijing's bustling streets to popular tourist destinations and unknown local haunts on quiet backstreets. Kingsbury has worked as an editor and translator in Beijing since 1988. Here, she amply demonstrates her familiarity with the four bicycle routes she recommends for sightseeing. The chapter for each route includes a map, with street names and landmarks clearly identified, followed by personal anecdotes of adventures on these routes. The book concludes with chapters on what to see and do, where to eat and stay, some basic traveler's information, and a bit about organized bicycle tours in Beijing. Armchair travelers should find this book moderately interesting, but the lack of much historical and cultural information about the places described detracts from its value. For public libraries. Chuck Malenfant, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.