City Of Heavenly Tranquillity: Beijing In The History Of China
by Becker, Jasper
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- Hardcover
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Allen Lane for Penguin, London, 2008. 24.0 x 16.0cms, 372pp, b/w illusts, fine hardback & dustwrapper This book describes the city's history and the motivations, processes and impact of its systematic destruction. It shows how successive governments have gutted its architectural heritage, attempting to eradicate its peopele's culture and memories. Worst of all was Jiang Zemin's plans to destroy the old city (1997).
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- Bookseller
- THE CROSS Art + Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 126604
- Title
- City Of Heavenly Tranquillity: Beijing In The History Of China
- Author
- Becker, Jasper
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Allen Lane for Penguin, London, 2008
- Keywords
- dragon throne forbidden city
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Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales
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We stock books about art, design, fashion and history, with a lot of books about Asian, Australian and Pacific arts, crafts, design and cultural history. We have books on women artists, academic analyses and dissident life as well as monographs on Old Masters and avant-garde artists.
Our shop is in Sydney's legendary Kings Cross, which provided alternatives to Australia's normalities and suburbia for 80 years. Colloquially known as The Cross, this name signifies Antipodean bohemia, street gangs and a famous red light district.
We buy quality books on the visual arts, architecture & design. We do not sell any children's books, cooking books, novels or self-help books. Five minutes walk from Kings Cross station, we are open between 10 – 6, every day of the week.
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