China Books

Unlike conventional publications, each book of this series contains a large number of old photographs selected to form a pictorial commentary on the text. Readers can learn about Chinese urban history and cultural evolution in urban society from a new perspective. The series offers insights into the historical changes of cities and the lives of urban Chinese in modern times. Writers renowned for their strong local style present a panoramic view of a city or the fate of the man in the street. The second book in the Old Beijing Series. Unlike the first volume, Old Beijing - In the Shadow of the Imperial Throne emphasises the ordinary people and divides the subject into four chapters: >‘Houses in the City’ >‘Dreams of the Street’ >‘Men & Women’ >‘Both Old & New’. (ISBN:7119028375) (For this item please quote stock ID 18151) ISBN: 7119028375

Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong offers the first comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, examining how the capital acquired its identity as a consummately 'traditional' Chinese city. For residents of Beijing, the heart of the city lay in the labour-intensive activities of 'recycling,' a primary mode of material and cultural production and circulation that came to characterise Republican Beijing. An omnipresent process of recycling and re-use unified Beijing's fragmented and stratified markets into one circulation system. These material practices evoked an air of nostalgia that permeated daily life. Paradoxically, the 'old Beijing' toward which this nostalgia was directed was not the imperial capital of the past, but the living Republican city. Such nostalgia toward the present, the author argues, was not an empty sentiment, but an essential characteristic of Chinese modernity. (ISBN:0520230507) (For this item please quote stock ID 21804) ISBN: 0520230507

These folktales are translated from Beijing Legends, compiled by Jin Shoushen, a Manchu gentleman whose family lived for many generations in Beijing. The folktales - with their genuine Chinese flavour - carry the reader back to the building of Beijing as the Ming-dynasty capital in 1421. Dealing with the city's layout, some of its chief monuments, place names and different legends, the tales give the reader a fascinating glimpse of the life of rulers as well as of ordinary people. (For this item please quote stock ID 13350) ISBN: 9787119037486

These Old Beijing postcards were selected from the 600 paintings of Sheng Xishan for the book Life & People in Old Beijing. These paintings depict the city wall towers, streets, markets, opera stages, shops, houses, archways, halls, bridges, pagodas, as well as the life and people in old Beijing in the 20th century. These scenes no longer exist but readers can trace the original sites during their visits to Beijing. (For this item please quote stock ID 17823) ISBN: 9787119022406

~Fifty photographers from 24 countries and 20 Chinese photographers were in Beijing in May 2000 to take part in a seven-day exercise called 'World Photographers Focusing on Beijing' - a concept that would capture all the possible faces of the capital and its citizens, and to illustrate what makes the city tick. A photographic microcosm forms the contents of this book, and the 70 photographers' pictures and comments pay tribute to what they found in Beijing. (For this item please quote stock ID 24126) ISBN: 9780000000002

With vivid descriptions and abundant illustrations, this book compares Beijing city and its people 100 years ago with those of the present era of the modernisation drive. The history of a city reflects the history of a nation. The great changes seen in the past 100-odd years in Beijing and its future plans are the epitome of China's long-standing history and bright prospects. (For this item please quote stock ID 25653) ISBN: 9787119040387

The DVD covers 2008 Beijing Olympic Stadium, Great Wall, Forbidden City, Hutong, Summer Palace,Fragrant hills Park, Beijing Opera, Famous Food in Beijing (Peking Duck, Hotpot, Dumpling),Wangfujing Steet, Temple of heaven. Click to watch a sample video clip (For this item please quote stock ID 29793)

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A famous city of both cultural and historic importance, Beijing has a history of over 3,000 years. From a primitive community to a political centre of feudal states and then the capital of the entire nation and long a major international metropolis, Beijing has walked a splendid road. Here, we can still find well-designed streets dating back to the Yuan Dynasty 700 years ago, and this is rare in any other city in the world. (For this item please quote stock ID 30290) ISBN: 9787119053455

Being a world-famous historic and cultural city and the capital of China, Beijing is the nation's political, economic and cultural center, as well as the center of transportation and foreign communication. With a total area of 16,800 square kilometers and a population of 13,000,000, the city is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. Due to the great changes occurring with each passing day, no album can accommodate all of its achievements. Bearing this in mind, in editing the New Beijing, the editors have selected some photos of projects under construction, as they can both record the historic moment of Beijing's construction, and foreshow the city's even broader future. (For this item please quote stock ID 31266) ISBN: 9787801684486

With vivid descriptions and abundant illustrations, this book compares Beijing city and its people 100 years ago with those of the present era of the modernisation drive. The history of a city reflects the history of a nation. The great changes seen in the past 100-odd years in Beijing and its future plans are the epitome of China's long-standing history and bright prospects. (For this item please quote stock ID 26595) ISBN: 9787119040370

Traces China's modern and contemporary experience, focusing on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, still the most exalted space in China today. Wu Hung describes the square's transformation from a proscribed imperial space to a public arena of political expression, and from a monumental Communist complex to a holy relic of the Maoist era. Using a wide range of sources including government archives, newspapers, photography, architecture, literature, art exhibitions and advertisements, this book explores the history and complex meaning of Beijing's public spaces. (For this item please quote stock ID 24404) ISBN: 9781861892355

A series that unfolds, in black-and-white photographs, natural scenes, historical sites, customs, culture, commerce and trade, and other aspects of the famous cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Although three of these books are entitled, Old Fashions..., clothing and dress only rate a passing mention. (For this item please quote stock ID 15760) ISBN: 9787102011042

Broad city walls, towering palaces, limpid water in lakes, winding streets and Hutongs, unsophisticated folkways, consummate skill, gorgeous attires, swaying signboards - all these made old Beijing an attractive city for which people yearned. This picture album contains rarely seen photographs that have been carefully collected over the years, and through them readers will be able to see how Beijing looked many years ago. Contents: The City Walls, the Gate Towers and the Moat; Folk Customs; Famous Scenic Spots; Cultures; The Streets; Religions; Commerce and Industry; Personages (For this item please quote stock ID 1828) ISBN: 9787200027921

This album includes some of the best works of Sheng Xishan selected from nearly five hundred paintings depicting scenes of old Beijing. The artist presents people?s daily lives in a myriad of images - the ways they dressed, the food they ate, the houses they lived in and the means by which they travelled in the 1920s and 1930s. He recreates street scenes, the life and work of businessmen and peddlers, and the customs and habits of the general populace. (For this item please quote stock ID 14172) ISBN: 9787119021782

This album evokes memories of Old Beijing, presenting its historical and cultural magnificence amongst the modern development of a fine, new Beijing. The many sepia-toned photographs provide a classic elegance to the story of a classic city. (For this item please quote stock ID 25652) ISBN: 9787800696671

The City of Intellectuals-Beijing Through the Centuries is an illustrated documentary book about Beijing's local history and traditional cultures. The whole book, with detailed historical materials and beautiful Pictures, is a chronicle of Beijing's evolution in the last 500 thousand years, especially that in the Yuan, ming and Qing dynasties, after which Beijing became an international metropolis. For Beijing's politics, trades and religions in each era. The book emphasizes the cultures, arts, gardens, architectures, imperial lives and common people's traditions, so this book not only has an overall and systematic content about Beijing, but also has its values in cultures and arts; it gives us both a historical narration and an international angle to represent the historical views of the ancient capital city Beijing. (For this item please quote stock ID 29905) ISBN: 9787802193857

Illustrates and describes the ancient capital of Beijing, in a number of languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, French, Germany, Spanish, Italian and Korean). (For this item please quote stock ID 24646) ISBN: 9787800693601

Received Joseph Levenson Prize in the Twentieth-Century Category, Association for Asian Studies (For this item please quote stock ID 12979) ISBN: 9780520082861

Old Beijing - In the Shadow of the Imperial Throne, with text and picture, is composed of eight parts: >Entering Beijing >Capital of the Empire >The Fall of the Dynasty >Streets & Alleys >Morning Bell & Evening Drum >Temple Fairs & Theatres >Subordinates of the Capital >A Picture of Secular Life. The illustrated ?Branches and Leaves? section added by the editor enhances the book and gives readers a brief history of Beijing. (For this item please quote stock ID 17809) ISBN: 9787119027869