The Emergence of Beijing as an Imperial Capital - The Forbidden City and the Qing Emperors - Daily Life in the Inner and Outer Cities - The City Besieged and the Last Emperors - "Old Beijing" and the "New China" - Mao's Capital and Socialist Transformation - Deng's Beijing and Economic Reform - Globalization, Urban Crisis, and the Olympic City - Conclusion: Destroying and Preserving the Past: The City as Museum and Showcase -
LILLIAN LI is Professor of History at Swarthmore College, USA. ALISON DRAY-NOVEY is Professor of History at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, USA. HAILI KONG is Professor of Chinese Language, Literature, and Film at Swarthmore College, USA.
"In an engaging style and enlightening narrative, "Beijing: From
Imperial Capital to Olympic City," tells the fascinating story of
how Beijing...made the transition from China's most enduring
imperial capital to a center of international commerce in the
twenty-first century, as well as the site of the 2008 World
Olympics."
--Merle Goldman, Professor Emerita of Chinese History, Boston
University, and co-author of "An Intellectual History of Modern
China""" "This book is a unique excursion through a great past and
present, neither misleading the beginner nor disappointing the
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selection of detail is an amazing accomplishment. The city of
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History, Dartmouth College, and author of "The Manchus" (1997) and
co-author of "Global Society: The World since 1900" (2007)
" In an engaging style and enlightening narrative, "Beijing: From
Imperial Capital to Olympic City," tells the fascinating story of
how Beijing, for the first time under the Mongols in the thirteenth
century, made the transition from China's most enduring imperial
capital to a center of international commerce in the twenty-first
century, as well as the site of the 2008 World Olympics."
--Merle Goldman, Professor Emerita of Chinese History, Boston
University, and co-author of "An Intellectual History of Modern
China"
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