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Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China

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 across Beijing offering a very personal encounter with the life of the capital`s streets. At the same time, it takes the reader on a journey through the city`s recent history, telling the story of how the present and future of the world`s rising superpower has been shaped by its tumultuous past, from the demise of the last imperial dynasty in 1912 through to the present day. — .

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