Beijing Blur: A head-spinning journey into modern China

Published in the United States and Canada under license from Penguin Book Group, Australia James West, a 23 year-old ABC Radio journalist from Sydney, is transferred to Beijing for a year to work as an exchange employee with China Radio International. Timely, insightful and magically droll, West chronicles a China that most tourists never see, from dancing on the Great Wall at a rave, to asking candid questions of budding entrepreneurs and successful business people by day, to exploring China s new frontiers of bloggers, punk-rock dens and underground gay (tongzhi) and lesbian (lala) culture by night.