City of Heavenly Tranquility: Beijing in the History of China

by Jasper Becker

Book Overview

When the world descends on Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, it will find the results of a helter skelter rush for modernization and wealth. In the course of a thousand years, temples and shrines, palaces, and gardens had filled the walls of old Peking. Its narrow, twisting streets held the collective memories of five dynasties and turbulent events of the 20th century. It has now all been swept away to make way for a new city filled with dull, boxy high...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195309979
• ISBN13: 9780195309973
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.5"