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Red Capital Residence

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From Food & Wine , SEP 2008

This hotel and restaurant, located down two back alleyways, feels like China in the 1950s...MORE>>

– Lettie Teague Places to Eat and Sleep in Asia

From Travel + Leisure , JUN 2006

In the gift shop, nostalgia-hunters can pick up the ultimate in retro-camp agitprop. Our favorite item was this shoe box–sized porcelain rendering of Chairman Mao and his defense minister, Lin Biao (who allegedly once attempted to assassinate his boss)....MORE>>

– Rob McKeown Bring It Back: Beijing

From Food & Wine , SEP 2005

Tiny, posh hotel in a historic home....MORE>>

– Salma Abdelnour Fine China

From Travel + Leisure , FEB 2003

Think of the campy Red Capital Residence, a five-room lodge in a Ch'ing-era courtyard in the city center, as a boutique inn with a Communist-kitsch theme. Furniture favored by Mao fits out the Chairman's Suite, which comes with his provocative Little Red Book at the bedside....MORE>>

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Last updated September 2008