Table of Contents

The Emergence of Beijing as an Imperial Capital - The Forbidden City and the Qing Emperors - Daily Life in the Inner and Outer Cities - The City Besieged and the Last Emperors - "Old Beijing" and the "New China" - Mao's Capital and Socialist Transformation - Deng's Beijing and Economic Reform - Globalization, Urban Crisis, and the Olympic City - Conclusion: Destroying and Preserving the Past: The City as Museum and Showcase -

About the Author

LILLIAN LI is Professor of History at Swarthmore College, USA. ALISON DRAY-NOVEY is Professor of History at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, USA. HAILI KONG is Professor of Chinese Language, Literature, and Film at Swarthmore College, USA.

Reviews

"In an engaging style and enlightening narrative, "Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City," tells the fascinating story of how Beijing...made the transition from China's most enduring imperial capital to a center of international commerce in the twenty-first century, as well as the site of the 2008 World Olympics."
--Merle Goldman, Professor Emerita of Chinese History, Boston University, and co-author of "An Intellectual History of Modern China""" "This book is a unique excursion through a great past and present, neither misleading the beginner nor disappointing the expert. Indeed, the combination of lucidity, conciseness and deft selection of detail is an amazing accomplishment. The city of Beijing is brilliantly conjured by this book--in time, in space, in humanity, and in significance."--Pamela Kyle Crossley, Professor of History, Dartmouth College, and author of "The Manchus" (1997) and co-author of "Global Society: The World since 1900" (2007)

" In an engaging style and enlightening narrative, "Beijing: From Imperial Capital to Olympic City," tells the fascinating story of how Beijing, for the first time under the Mongols in the thirteenth century, made the transition from China's most enduring imperial capital to a center of international commerce in the twenty-first century, as well as the site of the 2008 World Olympics."
--Merle Goldman, Professor Emerita of Chinese History, Boston University, and co-author of "An Intellectual History of Modern China"