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by Michael Dutton,Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo,Dong Dong Wu

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Michael Dutton,Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo,Dong Dong Wu

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978-0674047341

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0674047346

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English

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Harvard University Press (May 1, 2010)

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Science

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Earth Sciences

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Starting here, the authors fan outwards in a fascinating cultural mapping of modern Beijing.

Starting here, the authors fan outwards in a fascinating cultural mapping of modern Beijing. Here are ring roads that resemble "successive reworkings of the old city wall"; here is the district for "saw-gash CDs" (imperfect discs dumped by western record labels on the Chinese market), where the young bob for Sex Pistols albums. A few false notes sound, with jejune references to "the flow of spirit, or qi" through the city, and the occasional enfilade of theory to say something obvious, but the book is a useful street-level corrective to received ideas.

Wandering from the avant-garde art market to the clock towers, from the Monumental Axis to Mao’s Mausoleum, the book allows us to peer into the lives of Beijingers, the rules and rituals that govern their reality, and the mythologies that furnish their dreams. Deeply immersed in the culture, everyday and otherworldly, this anthropological tour, from ancient cosmology to Communist kitsch, allows us to see as never before how the people of Beijing-and China-work and live.

This book reveals the city as a whole Описание: A new and original take on the iconic story of man meets giant ape in the biggest and hairiest parody of all time, timed to coincide.

This book reveals the city as a whole. It allows us to see how the people of Beijing - and China - work and live. Описание: A new and original take on the iconic story of man meets giant ape in the biggest and hairiest parody of all time, timed to coincide with the new Peter Jackson movie!

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Beijing Time conducts us into this mysterious world, at once familiar and yet alien to the outsider. Hsiu-ju Stacy Lois an independent scholar. In the structure and detail of Tianâe(tm)anmen Square, the authors reveal the city as a whole. In Beijing no pyramids stand as proud remnants of the past; instead, the entire city symbolizes a vibrant civilization. Dong Dong Wuis an independent scholar. Библиографические данные.

Michael Dutton is author of Streetlife China and the prize-winning Policing Chinese Politics; he is also Professor of Politics at Goldsmiths University of London. Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo is an independent scholar. Dong Dong Wu is an independent scholar. Dong Dong Wu, Hsiu-ju Stacy Lo, Michael Dutton. Harvard University Press.

Michael Dutton, Hsiu-Ju Stacy Lo and Dong Dong Wu. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2008.

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“Where is the market?” inquires the tourist one dark, chilly morning. “Follow the ghosts,” responds the taxi driver, indicating a shadowy parade of overloaded tricycles. “It’s not called the ghost market for nothing!” And indeed, Beijing is nothing if not haunted. Among the soaring skyscrapers, choking exhaust fumes, nonstop traffic jams, and towering monuments, one discovers old Beijing―newly styled, perhaps, but no less present and powerful than in its ancient incarnation. Beijing Time conducts us into this mysterious world, at once familiar and yet alien to the outsider.

The ancient Chinese understood the world as enchanted, its shapes revealing the mythological order of the universe. In the structure and detail of Tian’anmen Square, the authors reveal the city as a whole. In Beijing no pyramids stand as proud remnants of the past; instead, the entire city symbolizes a vibrant civilization. From Tian’anmen Square, we proceed to the neighborhoods for a glimpse of local color―from the granny and the young police officer to the rag picker and the flower vendor. Wandering from the avant-garde art market to the clock towers, from the Monumental Axis to Mao’s Mausoleum, the book allows us to peer into the lives of Beijingers, the rules and rituals that govern their reality, and the mythologies that furnish their dreams. Deeply immersed in the culture, everyday and otherworldly, this anthropological tour, from ancient cosmology to Communist kitsch, allows us to see as never before how the people of Beijing―and China―work and live.

Ygglune

The two earlier reviews I read are essentially correct. A careful academic work this is not. It's more like a graduate level Lonely Planet guide. And that is what I wanted from this book, so I give it high enough marks. The authors actually did take LP to task at one point, at which point I thought to myself regarding this book's weaknesses, "Physician, heal thyself." And like good LP guides, it is generally superbly written, fresh, and interesting.

I just returned from Beijing, and visited many of the same sites as this book. It cast new light on them, in some occasionally overheated rhetoric. That said, I wish I had the book in Beijing as there are a few more places I would have visited. I thought the strength of the book was in its first half. This contained a description of Beijing's architecture and grand urban plan--its Cartesian nature with the y-axis the old imperial city, and the newer x-axis being the Communist contribution, with the Tiananmen Gate/The Great Helmsman at the origin. The authors are at their peak here, connecting architecture and politics. Its second half weakened (for me anyway) into bar-hopping, shopping excursion descriptions, and a too-long description of the second hand CD scene. It was too much like one of the more vapid "Style/Escapes" sections of the modern NYTimes. Nevertheless, the authors brought some new insights to me and held my interest through a rapid four hour read over two days.

Risteacor

Well, apparently this is what passes for scholarship at the Harvard Press:
"As religion moves between the sacred and the profane, garbage moves between city and country. Reincarnation is guaranteed, because trash never dies. Bajiacun becomes its version of limbo." Fashion "is the embodiment of modernity. Ever deceptive in its telling of time, fashion teases and seduces death, but survives itself by reviving the corpse of garbage. Like fashion, trash is eternal. Garbage of fashion, and fashion of garbage, are phenomena of modernity, the signs of progress, and the objects of entertainment. ...And both are doomed, rotating in the permanence that is the eternal return."
This isn't writing, and with due apologies to Mr. Capote, it isn't even typing. I'm sure that the ten academics who will pretend to understand this idiocy will laud it for fear of being thought too dense to decode it. Oh, lah.

monotronik

I recently lived and worked in Beijing for a period of three years. I would have very much appreciated the opportunity to have read this book prior to my arrival. It would have enabled me to better understand what I was seeing & experiencing all around me. Highly recommended for diplomats, business reps and ex-pats heading in that direction for both short and long term stays.

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