City of Heavenly Tranquility

by Jasper Becker

A tour de force by journalist Becker, this book explores how and why the Chinese buried their history and destroyed one of the world's most fabled cities, virtually extinguishing the culture of one of the greatest and oldest civilizations within the span of a single lifetime.

ISBN: 9780195309973

401 pages

Published: 2008-01-01

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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