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The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
The Last Days of Old Beijing Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
Author: Michael Meyer
A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes.?The epitaph for old Beijing will read: born in 1280, died in 2008?what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn?t eradicate, the market economy is,? writes Michae...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780802716521
ISBN-10: 0802716520
Publication Date: 6/24/2008
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Walker & Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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