Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-272), filmography (pages 271-272) , and index.
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History. Wild years ; Khanbalik ; The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) ; The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) ; The Republic, Japanese occupation and civil war (1912-1949) ; Revolution (1949-1976) ; Reform: the first decades (1976-2007) ; Ringing in the new -- The city today. In the shadow of the Drum Tower ; The dragon's vein ; 'Chinese town' ; The Circle Line ; The thirsty city ; On the art trail ; The Nest, the Cube, the Underpants and the Egg ; A taste of the city ; The Prince's garden -- Listings.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Reaktion's new CityScopes series consists of concise, illustrated guides that provide a social and urban history from a city's beginnings to the present day. Written by authors with unique and intimate knowledge of each city, these books offer fascinating vignettes on the quintessential and the quirky. In the first book of the series, Linda Jaivin explores a city at the heart of one of the world's oldest civilizations and the capital of its newest superpower-Beijing. In China's central city, Jaivin finds thousands of years of history dating back to our ancestors, a story that includes dynastic.