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The search for a vanishing Beijing a guide to China"s capital through the ages by M. A. Aldrich
Published 2008 by Hong Kong University Press in Hong Kong .
Beijing (China) -- Description and travel.,
Beijing (China) -- History.,
Beijing (China) -- Guidebooks.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-379) and index.
Other titles Jiu jing da guan
Statement M.A. Aldrich.
Genre Guidebooks.
Pagination xxii, 399 p. :
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The Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China. The author leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets and markets while bringing back to living memory forgotten or overlooked Peking customs, stories and beliefs/5(9).
The Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China.
The author leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets and markets whilebringing back to living memory forgotten or overlooked Peking customs, stories and beliefs.4/5(3).
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The search for a vanishing Beijing: a guide to China's capital through the ages. [M A Aldrich] -- Both a history and The search for a vanishing Beijing book guide, this book devotes chapters to the plan of old Peking, Tian An Men Square, the Purple Forbidden City, the former Legation district, the Great Wall, plus food drink.
"The Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China. The author leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets and markets while bringing back to living memory forgotten or overlooked Peking customs, stories and beliefs.
The author leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets and markets while bringing back to living memory forgotten or overlooked Peking customs, stories and beliefs.
This book weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China. The book leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets, and markets while bringing back to living memory forgotten or overlooked Peking customs, stories, and beliefs.
The text touches on everything under the sun as the reader walks from Tian An Men Square. China's Vanishing Worlds offers readers a rare opportunity to glimpse China as it once was, and as it will soon no longer be.
Just a few kilometers from the glittering skylines of Shanghai and Beijing, we encounter a vast countryside, an often forgotten and seemingly limitless landscape stretching far beyond the outskirts of the cities.
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