When the world descends on Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, it will find the results of a helter skelter rush for modernization and wealth. In the course of a thousand years, temples and shrines, palaces, and gardens had filled the walls of old Peking. Its narrow, twisting streets held the collective memories of five dynasties and turbulent events of the 20th century. It has now all been swept away to make way for a new city filled with dull, boxy high rises, rows of shopping malls, office towers blocks, and residential housing developments marching down uniform streets. The City of Heavenly Tranquility explores how and why the Chinese buried their history and destroyed one of the world's most fabled cities, virtually extinguishing the culture of one of the greatest and oldest civilizations within the span of a single lifetime.
In a tour de force by a long time resident, British journalist Jasper Becker brings to life the strange and exotic lives of the emperors, eunuchs, courtesans, and warriors who for centuries ruled from behind the red walls of the Forbidden City. Becker mixes his own experiences with poignant stories from those who were destroyed in the tornado of destruction as they tried to rescue something from the past. Writing vividly and with passion, Becker shows how ruthless officials and a fiercely nationalistic government set itself the monumental mission to change the fabric of a nation - and succeeded. He also explains how those currently in power, Mao's former Red Guards, remain determined to modernize China by jettisoning the past and clearing space for the future, evicting over three million residents in Beijing alone.
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评分#还在读，很有意思的一本书，外国人眼中的晚清。不是学术性的论文，可以算是本轻松读物。圆明园，义和拳以及晚清的中国外交在中国的历史读本里涉及甚浅，往往为一笔带过或总扯上民族大义，成为爱国主义的范本，这本书的作者搜集了许多当时在京外国人的记述修补了这段模糊的历史，也算是提供了一个新的角度来重看清朝的覆灭。且作者走访了不少北京的老街老巷，一些现已不复存在，读起来还是蛮心酸的==
评分在Bristol的小书店用2镑价格买到的，和王军的《城记》有一比。
评分#还在读，很有意思的一本书，外国人眼中的晚清。不是学术性的论文，可以算是本轻松读物。圆明园，义和拳以及晚清的中国外交在中国的历史读本里涉及甚浅，往往为一笔带过或总扯上民族大义，成为爱国主义的范本，这本书的作者搜集了许多当时在京外国人的记述修补了这段模糊的历史，也算是提供了一个新的角度来重看清朝的覆灭。且作者走访了不少北京的老街老巷，一些现已不复存在，读起来还是蛮心酸的==
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