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City of heavenly tranquillity : Beijing in the history of China / Jasper Becker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Becker, Jasper.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beijing (China)--History.
- Beijing (China).
- China--History.
- China.
- History.
- Beijing (China)--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- A tour de force by journalist Becker, this book explores how and why the Chinese buried their history and destroyed one of the world's most fabled cities, virtually extinguishing the culture of one of the greatest and oldest civilizations within the span of a single lifetime.
- Contents:
- In Xanadu
- The emperor of perpetual happiness
- Madness in the Forbidden City
- On the wild wall
- The Ming tombs
- In the garden of perfect brightness
- The broken bowl tea house
- The last sanctuary of the unknown and marvellous
- The last manchus
- In search of the golden flower
- Mao and Beijing
- History in stone
- The strange death of Lao She
- The red maid's tale
- The last playboy of Beijing
- The protectress of flowers
- Radiant city of the future
- Destroy!
- The eternal present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-333) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195309973
- 0195309979
- OCLC:
- 191758450
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