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Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526131577)
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xThrough the centre of China's historic capital, Long Peace Street cuts a long, arrow-straight line. It divides the Forbidden City, home to generations of Chinese emperors, from Tiananmen Square, the vast granite square constructed to glorify a New China under Communist rule. To walk the street is to travel through the story of China's recent past, wandering among its physical relics and hearing echoes of its dramas.
Long Peace Street recounts a journey in modern China, a walk of twenty miles across Beijing offering a very personal encounter with the life of the capital's streets. At the same time, it takes the reader on a journey through the city's recent history, telling the story of how the present and future of the world's rising superpower has been shaped by its tumultuous past, from the demise of the last imperial dynasty in 1912 through to the present day.Author: Jonathan Chatwin
ISBN-10: 1526131579
ISBN-13: 9781526131577
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/12/2019
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.10w x 1.20d
By Jonathan Chatwin
xJonathan Chatwin is a travel writer and journalist. His essays and articles on Chinese history and culture have been published by CNN, the South China Morning Post and the Los Angeles Review of Books amongst other publications. He is the author of Anywhere Out of the World, a literary biography of the traveller and writer Bruce Chatwin. He has lived and travelled widely in China.
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