Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, Long Peace Street takes the reader on a journey through the cityà â â s recent history, explaining how the present and future of the worldà â â 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. -- .
Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, Long Peace Street takes the reader on a journey through the cityà â â s recent history, explaining how the present and future of the worldà â â 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. -- .
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.
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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
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
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