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Through the centre of China's historic capital, Long Peace Street
cuts a long, arrow-straight line. It divides the Forbidden City,
home to generations of Chinese emperors, from Tiananmen Square, the
vast granite square constructed to glorify a New China under
Communist rule. To walk the street is to travel through the story
of China's recent past, wandering among its physical relics and
hearing echoes of its dramas. Long Peace Street recounts a journey
in modern China, a walk of twenty miles across Beijing offering a
very personal encounter with the life of the capital's streets. At
the same time, it takes the reader on a journey through the city's
recent history, telling the story of how the present and future of
the world's rising superpower has been shaped by its tumultuous
past, from the demise of the last imperial dynasty in 1912 through
to the present day. -- .
Through the centre of China's historic capital, Long Peace Street
cuts a long, arrow-straight line. It divides the Forbidden City,
home to generations of Chinese emperors, from Tiananmen Square, the
vast granite square constructed to glorify a New China under
Communist rule. To walk the street is to travel through the story
of China's recent past, wandering among its physical relics and
hearing echoes of its dramas. Long Peace Street recounts a journey
in modern China, a walk of twenty miles across Beijing offering a
very personal encounter with the life of the capital's streets. At
the same time, it takes the reader on a journey through the city's
recent history, telling the story of how the present and future of
the world's rising superpower has been shaped by its tumultuous
past, from the demise of the last imperial dynasty in 1912 through
to the present day. -- .
By the time of his death in 1989 at the age of 48, Bruce Chatwin
had become one of the most celebrated writers of the twentieth
century. Though his career spanned merely twelve years, his impact
and influence was profoundly felt; Chatwin's first book In
Patagonia 'redefined travel writing', whilst his later work The
Songlines became one of the literary sensations of the 1980s.
Incorporating original and extensive archival research, as well as
new interviews with his family and friends, Anywhere Out of the
World provides the definitive critical perspective upon the
literary life and work of this enigmatic and influential author.
The work, now available in paperback, offers a chronological
overview of Chatwin's literary career, from his first, ultimately
aborted work The Nomadic Alternative - here discussed in detail for
the first time - through to his final novel Utz. In subjecting his
work to such analysis, the study uncovers a striking thematic
commonality in Chatwin's oeuvre: his work is fundamentally
preoccupied with the subject of human restlessness. This volume
provides detailed insight into Chatwin's treatment of the subject
in his work, identifying and discussing the biographical and
philosophical sources of this defining preoccupation. -- .
On a freezing January afternoon in 1992, Deng Xiaoping - China’s
former paramount leader and now a revered elder statesman - set off
on a month long trip around China’s south in defence of the
reforms he had set in motion to open up China’s economy and
transform the country into the political and economic powerhouse we
know today. In this book Jonathan Chatwin charts the story of
Deng’s legendary "southern tour" of China and the legacy of his
programme of economic liberalization in the country today. Chatwin
explores a nation still gripped by the pursuit of wealth that Deng
legitimized, and transformed by the large-scale urban developments
exemplified by the mega-cities of southern China, such as Shenzhen
and Guangdong. Drawing on historical and contemporary eyewitness
accounts, The Southern Tour brings to life the story of China’s
transformation into a 21st-century superpower.
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