Probably Beijing's best mid-range option, the rooms are furnished in imperial gold, red and green.

BBC: Mini guide to Beijing

He was their bureau chief there for a few years and his book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, will be released tomorrow.

NPR: No Smoking in the Green Zone

Some of the army green dresses and coats featured a folkloric motif by way of black and crimson imperial brocade.

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