9780674027794
The Forbidden City
Geremie Barme
ISBN 13: 9780674027794
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
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The author provides a new and original history of Beijing's historic Forbidden City in an illustrated study that peels away the veneer of power, secrecy, inscrutability, and passions of imperial China to reveal the culture, architecture, politics, and significance of the landmark.
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"In a class of its own is Geremie Barme's beautifully judged, if more narrowly focused, book on the Forbidden City....He writes with a seductive economy and deploys impressive research."
John Keay, Times Literary Supplement, 05/02/2008
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Book Description: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, United States, 2008. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 186 x 122 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Read supplementary material prepared by Geremie Barme Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series(Part I and Part II)The Forbidden City (Zijin Cheng) lying at the heart of Beijing formed the hub of the Celestial Empire for five centuries. Over the past century it has led a reduced life as the refuge for a deposed emperor, as well as a heritage museum for monarchist, republican, and socialist citizens, and it has been celebrated and excoriated as a symbol of all that was magnificent and terrible in dynastic China's legacy.The Forbidden City's vermilion walls have fueled literary fantasies that have become an intrinsic part of its disputed and documented history. Mao Zedong even considered razing the entire structure to make way for the buildings of a new socialist China. The fictions surrounding the Forbidden City have also had an international reach, and writers like Franz Kafka, Elias Canetti, Jorge Luis Borges, and Mervyn Peake have all succumbed to its myths. The politics it enshrined have provided the vocabulary of power that is used in China to the present day, though it is now better known as a film set or the background of displays of opera, rock, and fashion.Geremie Barme peels away the veneer of power, secrecy, inscrutability, and passions of imperial China, to provide a new and original history of the culture, politics, and architecture of the Forbidden City. Designed to overawe the visitor with the power of imperial China, the Forbidden City remains one of the true wonders of the world. Bookseller Inventory # FLT9780674027794 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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