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Long Peace Street de Jonathan Chatwin

Long Peace Street

Autor Jonathan Chatwin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – apr 2021
Through 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.
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ISBN-13: 9781526151735
ISBN-10: 1526151731
Pagini: 282
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Notă biografică

Jonathan 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.

Cuprins

Introduction Day one: Shougang Iron and Steel to Tiananmen 1 Capital Iron and Steel - origins - the Great Leap Forward - a bad neighbour - future plans 2 New suburbia - the city in history - the hutong - Shijingshan Amusement Park 3 Change - ring roads and the New Beijing - Great Olympics 4 Babaoshan ghosts - the cemetery - the life of Peng Dehuai - return to Hunan 5 A diversion - straightness - the road as metaphor 6 Military markings - Tomb of the Princess - new regime, new capital? - the Military Museum 7 Diaoyutai State Guesthouse - December 1980 - 'To Rebel is Justified' - Chairman Mao's dog 8 Big roofs - Capital Museum - pailou - some history 9 Muxidi Bridge - petitions and protests - May Fourth - Democracy Movement - 1976 - 1978 - 1989 - the aftermath 10 Rainbows - walls, walls, and yet again walls - breaches - New Year's Day in Xi'an - demolition - socialist core values 11 A hungry refrain - little grey streets - reform and opening-up - state owned enterprises 12 An assassination - Middle and Southern Seas - imperial pretensions - Xinhuamen - paranoia - hidden places - Mao at Zhongnanhai Day two: Tiananmen to Sihui Dong subway station 13 The middle of the Middle Kingdom - hidden tales of Tiananmen - the Great Helmsman 14 A walk to Tiananmen - into the Forbidden City - intruders 15 Four days in the Forbidden City 16 Out of the Forbidden City - scholar trees - dislocation - destruction - impressions of Beijing - going native - Legation Street today - fireworks over Tiananmen 17 The man who died twice - Wangfujing - a literary traveller - the end of the Qing - Morrison and Yuan Shikai - a sad coda - Palm Sunday in Sidmouth 18 Oriental Plaza - walking in cities - the Imperial Observatory - origins of the Chinese calendar - the Jesuits - the Republican calendar - time in modern China 19 Outside the wall - the Grand Canal and the eastern suburbs - 22nd August 1967 - all palaces are temporary palaces - Forsan et haec olim - red 20 One city - the east is rich - weird architecture - mall life - underground 21 G103 - the story of a nation - the end Epilogue Index

Descriere

Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, Long Peace Street takes the reader on a journey through the city's recent history, explaining 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. -- .