The Search for a Vanishing Beijing

The Search for a Vanishing BeijingThe Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China. The author leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets and markets while bringing back to living memory forgotten or overlooked Peking customs, stories and beliefs. The text touches on everything under the sun as the reader walks from Tian An Men Square through the

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It investigates what happens when theories of art from the former East and West collide

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Finalist for the 2014 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Women's Studies Category

Originally published in 1864

The resulting analysis of state-level education politics is provocative and unconventional

Offering a new interpretation of Aristotle's Analytics (the Prior and Posterior Analytics) as a unified whole

This edition of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy is a classic of Italian literature reimagined for modern readers

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