Jonathan Chatwin

Long Peace Street (eBook, ePUB)

A walk in modern China

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kind World Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526131584
• Artikelnr.: 57471892

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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