Imperial Capital's Beijing Charm: Exploring the City of Beijing

Author: Jianping Li
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: "Imperial Capital, Beijing's Rhythm—Getting Closer to Beijing City" is a collection of recent research achievements by Mr. Jianping Li on Beijing's history and culture. These achievements include academic papers and popular science lecture drafts. We have compiled them into this book to provide readers with an understanding of Beijing's history and culture, as Mr. Li hoped, allowing readers to get closer to Beijing through this book. Jianping Li currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Beijing Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Office and the Vice President and Secretary-General of the Beijing History Research Association. Despite his busy daily administrative duties, he still manages to utilize his spare time to explore Beijing's history and culture, leveraging his expertise in history. His work "The Charm of Beijing's Old City Central Axis and Innovative Urban Development" won the Beijing Outstanding Popular Science Work Award in 2003. Additionally, he was invited to give specialized lectures on CCTV-10's "One Hundred Lectures" program, receiving acclaim and becoming a distinctive expert in the study of ancient Chinese city central axes. His research also covers Beijing's city walls and gates, streets and alleys, siheyuan (traditional courtyard houses), royal gardens, and more.