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The Times Literary Supplement July 14, 2006 Before Tiananmen Jonathan Mirsky REPUBLICAN BEIJING. The city and its histories. By Madeleine Yue Dong. 400pp. Berkeley: University of California Press. $50; distributed in the UK by Wiley. Pounds 32.50. - 0 520 23050 7. REMAKING BEIJING. Tiananmen Square and the creation of a political space. Wu Hung. 256pp. Reaktion. Paperback, Pounds 19.95. - 1 86189 235 7. US: University of Chicago Press. $35. - 1 861 89235 7. LHASA. Streets with memories. Robert Barnett. 244pp. New York: Columbia University Press. $24.50. - 0 231 13680 3. KYOTO. A cultural and literary history. John Dougill. 272pp. Oxford: Signal. Pounds 12. - 1 904955 13 4. US: Oxford University Press. $55. - 0 19 530137 4. Asian cities are a hot academic subject these days. Madeline Yue Dong, a historian at the University of Washington, must know as much as anyone about Beijing during the past hundred years and the centuries long before. That may have saved her life. In 1989, during the army's assault on the capital's citizens, which extended far beyond Tiananmen Square, her knowledge of the city's alleyways meant that "I could always maneuver the streets and get wher

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Author

Madeleine Yue Dong; with a forew. by Thomas Bender

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585456324

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Anthropology