Beijing Welcomes You : Unveiling The Capital City Of The Future
by Tom Scocca

What promised to be an interesting book about Beijing before the Olympics and during it fell flat for me after reading one hundred pages. Tom Scocca flies to China (his wife is there ahead of him for her job) and tries to ameliorate himself to his new environs by adjusting to his different kind of residence, learning how to get around, watching both destruction and construction, attempting to conquer Mandarin so that he can interview and talk to the people, figuring out how to deal with all of the rules and regulations, etc.
As soon as he began to write about all of the sports and the Olympic arena, I became bored. The best stuff is about Beijing, how the citizens live, the food, the culture, all the things that define China.
Scocca's style is very dry and plodding.
Not recommended.