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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 acr
- Author
- Jonathan Chatwin;
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781526131577
- Subjects
- Travel, History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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