"What is your favorite Beijing sound and why? During September 2005 hundreds of Beijingers were asked this question and their replies make up the tracks of this compact disc [...] Set up by British Council as part of their Sounds in the city initiative that took place in Shanghai, Chongqing & Guangzhou [...] The Favorite sound project aims to discover what people find positive about their citys soundscape. It started in London in 1998 and still continues there." Peter Cusack - April 2007. Also issued with the book entitled Sound and the city edited by Yan Jun & Louise Gray and published by Horizon Media (Beijing, China). Supported by the Cultural and Education section of the British embassy.