Umfang:
1 online resource (288 pages)
ISBN:
9780802779120
Inhalt:
The most original China book of 2008 is the most appealing China book in paperback in 2009--a fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its ancient neighborhoodw, facing destruction as the city, and China, is relentlessly modernized.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Maps -- Chapter 1: Through the Front Gate -- Chapter 2: Becoming Teacher Plumblossom -- Chapter 3: Mocky & -- Me -- Chapter 4: "Say Farewell to Dangerous Housing" -- Chapter 5: Wintertime -- Chapter 6: A Brief History of Part One: Traces of Pre-Beijing -- Chapter 7: The Evening News -- Chapter 8: High Times in Happiness City -- Chapter 9: Preserving a Sense of Place -- Chapter 10: Springtime -- Chapter 11: A Brief History of Part Two: The Rise and Fall of Imperial Beijing -- Chapter 12: The Unslumming Slum -- Chapter 13: Saving the Old Street -- Chapter 14: A Summer of Recycling -- Chapter 15: Past Tense vs. Future Tense -- Chapter 16: A Brief History of Part Three: The Modernization of Republican Beijing -- Chapter 17: Miss Zhu Remembers the Trees -- Chapter 18: "If Someone Is Sick and You Do Not Aid Him, It Is Your Fault, Not His" -- Chapter 19: The Widow's Story -- Chapter 20: A Brief History of Part Four: The Industrialization of Maoist Beijing -- Chapter 21: Echo Wall -- Epilogue: New Beijing, New Olympics -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Gazetteer -- Notes -- Bibliography -- eCopyright.
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Weitere Ausg.:
9780802717504
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780802717504
Sprache:
Englisch
