Beijing : a concise history / Stephen G. Haw
Material type: TextSeries: (Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 42)Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007Edition: Description: xi, 212 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 0415399068 (hbk.); 9780415399067 (hbk.); 9780415399050 (pbk.); 041539905X (pbk.)Subject(s): Beijing (China) -- History | China -- BeijingDDC classification: 900.51156Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 900.51156 HAW/B (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P16449 |
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.
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