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Cinema ticket
RMB 0
Pirated DVD
RMB 10
Tickets for a live music act
RMB 50 - 300
CLOTHING
Shirt dry-cleaned
RMB 12
Quality fake Prada bag
RMB 600
Tailored suit
RMB 1,000
Levi's jeans
RMB 500 - 1,200
Antiques
For antiques with questionable antiquity and kitsch Chinese curios, head down to the
Panjiayuan flee market (Line 10) early on Saturday or Sunday morning. Quality Chinese-
style furniture can also be found at Gaobeidian Furniture Street ( 高碑店家具一条街 ), a
little south of Sihui (Line 1), beside the East Fourth Ring Road. Along this quiet back-
street, you'll find shops such as Lily's Antiques Furniture, which sell classic decorations
and pieces of furniture that you'll most likely want to take home with you.
Books and Magazines
English-language books and magazines are increasingly easy to get in Beijing. You may
still need to rely on incoming visitors for copies of the latest Vanity Fair or Real Life, but
a handful of titles are available in international supermarkets and bookshops such as The
Bookworm in Sanlitun, Page One, and Trends Lounge in the north tower of The Place.
These are also the places to go for English books. Be warned, however; prices in such
places are international and will likely incorporate the expense of shipping. Beijing's ma-
jor local bookshops all have collections of English books, sometimes surprisingly large,
and are usually cheaper than the international bookstores. These mega complexes include
the Wangfujing Bookstore and Foreign Language Bookstore at Wangfujing, and the Xidan
Books Building beside Xidan subway station. A much cheaper and potentially more con-
venient option is to use online bookstores, including www.amazon.cn , www.dangdang.com ,
and www.beifabook.com . Not all will accept international credit cards, but these three allow
for cash on delivery. Rather than automatically defaulting to international bookstores for
unusual titles it can worth checking here first. You might find that the topic price works out
to be the same, but you'll avoid the shipping costs.
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