Beijing Beijing City and Beijing People

Author: Xiao Xiaoming (Editor-in-Chief), Lan Peijin (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2005-10-17
Features: This book presents a vivid picture of Beijing a century ago and the people of Beijing, alongside the Beijing of today, which has undergone a century of transformation and is rapidly advancing towards modernization. Through a comparative editing approach and rich images and detailed text, it allows readers to see how today's Beijing is a continuation and development of historical Beijing. The history of a city is the history of a nation. The monumental changes and future prospects of Beijing over the past century are also a microcosm of China's transformation from weakness to strength and its inevitable prosperous future.