China

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Travel advice

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Cinemas and bookshops in China

If you are an ESL teacher living and working abroad, finding reading material in English or a cinema showing films in English can sometimes be difficult. To help you, we are compiling a directory of English language bookshops and cinemas worldwide.

English language bookshops in China
English language cinemas in China

Travel guides and language books for China

The Rough Guide to China
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The Rough Guide to Beijing
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Facts

Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China, 1 October (1949)
International dialing code: 86
Population: 1,298,847,624
Language: Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Min
Government: communist state
Religion: Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Muslim 1%-2%, Christian 3%-4%, officially atheist (2002 estimated)
Climate: extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north

From The CIA World Factbook

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