Has anyone out there had any experience with obtaining Chinese tourist visas in the USA? I've tried contacting the DC embassy continuously for the past ten days to find out the price for British citizens living in the USA, but could never get through to them. I just gave up and sent it in with a money order for the US citizens' price. On hindsight, I'm kind of nervous because for all I know, they may not be open any more or could have moved. Hopefully, it's just Chinese bureaucracy at work and therefore, they never pick up their phones. Thanks for your help!

In order to make this somewhat ff related, I thought I'd better mention that I'm earning a whole stack of DL and SR miles on my round-about way of getting there. (DL ticket from Boston to the UK and SR ticket from London to Beijing.)