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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在Bristol的小書店用2鎊價格買到的，和王軍的《城記》有一比。
评分囊括瞭北京的近代史，書裏麵既有史料記載的參照，也有作者鬍同走訪的結果，印象很深的就是作者去探望北京最後一個太監和北京最後一位滿族"玩主"的故事，當然，可惜的是現在他們都去世瞭。北京發展的背後，尤其是08年奧運前夕發生的大規模拆遷，作者都給齣瞭自己的解釋和看法。很難說作者沒有偏見，但是他的闡釋中有很大一部分閤理和叫人信服的判斷。#替男友讀書
评分囊括瞭北京的近代史，書裏麵既有史料記載的參照，也有作者鬍同走訪的結果，印象很深的就是作者去探望北京最後一個太監和北京最後一位滿族"玩主"的故事，當然，可惜的是現在他們都去世瞭。北京發展的背後，尤其是08年奧運前夕發生的大規模拆遷，作者都給齣瞭自己的解釋和看法。很難說作者沒有偏見，但是他的闡釋中有很大一部分閤理和叫人信服的判斷。#替男友讀書
评分#還在讀，很有意思的一本書，外國人眼中的晚清。不是學術性的論文，可以算是本輕鬆讀物。圓明園，義和拳以及晚清的中國外交在中國的曆史讀本裏涉及甚淺，往往為一筆帶過或總扯上民族大義，成為愛國主義的範本，這本書的作者搜集瞭許多當時在京外國人的記述修補瞭這段模糊的曆史，也算是提供瞭一個新的角度來重看清朝的覆滅。且作者走訪瞭不少北京的老街老巷，一些現已不復存在，讀起來還是蠻心酸的==
评分在Bristol的小書店用2鎊價格買到的，和王軍的《城記》有一比。
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