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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Chatwin is a writer and creator of www.brucechatwin.co.uk Klappentext Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, Long Peace Street takes the reader on a journey through the city's recent history, explaining 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. Zusammenfassung Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, Long Peace Street takes the reader on a journey through the city’s recent history, explaining 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionDay one: Shougang Iron and Steel to Tiananmen1 Capital Iron and Steel - origins - the Great Leap Forward - a bad neighbour - future plans2 New suburbia - the city in history - the hutong - Shijingshan Amusement Park3 Change - ring roads and the New Beijing - Great Olympics4 Babaoshan ghosts - the cemetery - the life of Peng Dehuai - return to Hunan5 A diversion - straightness - the road as metaphor6 Military markings - Tomb of the Princess - new regime, new capital? - the Military Museum7 Diaoyutai State Guesthouse - December 1980 - 'To Rebel is Justified' - Chairman Mao's dog8 Big roofs - Capital Museum - pailou - some history9 Muxidi Bridge - petitions and protests - May Fourth - Democracy Movement - 1976 - 1978 - 1989 - the aftermath10 Rainbows - walls, walls, and yet again walls - breaches - New Year's Day in Xi'an - demolition - socialist core values11 A hungry refrain - little grey streets - reform and opening-up - state owned enterprises12 An assassination - Middle and Southern Seas - imperial pretensions - Xinhuamen - paranoia - hidden places - Mao at ZhongnanhaiDay two: Tiananmen to Sihui Dong subway station13 The middle of the Middle Kingdom - hidden tales of Tiananmen - the Great Helmsman14 A walk to Tiananmen - into the Forbidden City - intruders15 Four days in the Forbidden City16 Out of the Forbidden City - scholar trees - dislocation - destruction - impressions of Beijing - going native - Legation Street today - fireworks over Tiananmen17 The man who died twice - Wangfujing - a literary traveller - the end of the Qing - Morrison and Yuan Shikai - a sad coda - Palm Sunday in Sidmouth18 Oriental Plaza - walking in cities - the Imperial Observatory - origins of the Chinese calendar - the Jesuits - the Republican calendar - time in modern China19 Outside the wall - the Grand Canal and the eastern suburbs - 22nd August 1967 - all palaces are temporary palaces - Forsan et haec olim - red20 One city - the east is rich - weird architecture - mall life - underground21 G103 - the story of a nation - the endEpilogueIndex...
