The City of Intellectuals: Beijing Through the Centuries

This book is an illustrated documentary book about Beijing's local history and traditional cultures. The whole book, with detailed historical materials and beautiful pictures, is a chronicle of Beijing's evolution in the last 500 thousand years, especially that in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, after which Beijing became an international metropolis. For Beijing's politics, economies, trades and religions in each era, this book put emphasis on the culture, art, gardens, architectures, imperial lives and common people's traditions. So this book not only has an overall and systematic content about Beijing, but also has its values in cultures and arts; it gives us both a historical narration and an international angle to represent the historical views of the ancient capital city Beijing.