The Midnight in Peking Audio Walking Tour

One last plug for my Midnight in Peking web site (and if you believe that you’ll believe anything). I feel I should really plug this for any Peking residents reading and anyone likely to visit Peking anytime soon. We’ve included a walking tour with audio on the Midnight in Peking web site. Just click here and you can download a guided commentary to your ipod or mp3 device, listen online, print off the guide to read as you walk and also print of a map of the route (though the recording helps you out with directions too).

The walk takes you from Pamela’s old hutong, Armour Factory Alley, to the Fox Tower, along the Tartar Wall, into the former Badlands area and Soochow Hutong, up into the Legation Quarter and eventually to Chienmen. The commentary covers both the general history of these areas of Peking and their relevance to the book and the characters in Midnight in Peking. I’ve structured it so that, as far as possible, you never need interact with the nasty brutishness that is modern Peking and also avoid the worst of the ridiculous traffic the city serves up.

Got to be worth a couple of hours one weekend, surely!