Beijing A to Z

Author: Hong Zhu
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This is a "history book" that disrupts the order, reversing our reading habits. For the reader, it is a bold act of reading rebellion and experience—it can be opened to any page and crafted into a uniquely enjoyable platter according to your intent.
—Qiu Huadong, 35-year-old renowned writer and critic
This book presents us with two Beijings—Old Beijing and New Beijing. The past and the present together form Beijing's nights and days, dreams and awakenings, traditions and rebellions, nobility and approachability.
The author adopts an arrangement like that of a dictionary, consciously allowing nobles and commoners to easily meet within these words and images. Time and space also become disordered in this ordering. Thus, Beijing, this ancient yet new city, becomes familiar, authentic, and filled with humorous Beijing flavor in this disarray.
In the eyes of the two authors, nothing is unbreakable. And the reader only needs to read happily and enjoy.