Republican Beijing The City and Its Histories

Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories By Madeleine Yue Dong
2003 | 406 Pages | ISBN: 0520230507 | PDF | 16 MB
Asian cities are a hot academic subject these days. Madeline Yue Dong, a historian at the University of Washington, must know as much as anyone about Beijing during the past hundred years and the centuries long before. That may have saved her life. In 1989, during the army's assault on the capital's citizens, which extended far beyond Tiananmen Square, her knowledge of the city's alleyways meant that "I could always maneuver the streets and get where I wanted to be when the main arteries were blocked".