Beijing : a concise history /
Haw, Stephen G.
Beijing : a concise history / Stephen G. Haw - - London ; New York : Routledge, 2007. - xi, 212 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - (Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia; 42) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the northern capital -- At the edge of the north China Plain : the location and prehistory of the Beijing area -- Chinese or barbarian? : c. 2,000 BCE to 581 CE -- Regained and lost : the Sui, Tang, Liao and Jin dynasties, 581 to 1215 -- Destroyed and rebuilt : the Mongol conquest and the new city of Dadu, 1215 to 1368 -- Chinese capital : the Ming dynasty, 1368 to 1644 -- Change of mandate : the Manchu conquest, 1644-1860 -- Besieged : the late Qing dynasty, 1860-1911 -- Northern peace? : the republic, the warlords, and Communist Revolution, 1911-1949 -- Pride restored : the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976 -- The modern city : 1976 to the present.
0415399068 (hbk.) 9780415399067 (hbk.) 9780415399050 (pbk.) 041539905X (pbk.)
Beijing (China)--History
China--Beijing
900.51156 / HAW/B
Beijing : a concise history / Stephen G. Haw - - London ; New York : Routledge, 2007. - xi, 212 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - (Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia; 42) .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the northern capital -- At the edge of the north China Plain : the location and prehistory of the Beijing area -- Chinese or barbarian? : c. 2,000 BCE to 581 CE -- Regained and lost : the Sui, Tang, Liao and Jin dynasties, 581 to 1215 -- Destroyed and rebuilt : the Mongol conquest and the new city of Dadu, 1215 to 1368 -- Chinese capital : the Ming dynasty, 1368 to 1644 -- Change of mandate : the Manchu conquest, 1644-1860 -- Besieged : the late Qing dynasty, 1860-1911 -- Northern peace? : the republic, the warlords, and Communist Revolution, 1911-1949 -- Pride restored : the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976 -- The modern city : 1976 to the present.
0415399068 (hbk.) 9780415399067 (hbk.) 9780415399050 (pbk.) 041539905X (pbk.)
Beijing (China)--History
China--Beijing
900.51156 / HAW/B