Description - Beijing Walks by Don J. Cohn
Ever since Marco Polo published his wide-eyed report on
Khanbaligh, or Cambaluc, the city of the Mongol khans,
Peking - as Beijing has been known for most of the past
300 years - has captured the Western imagination as few
other ancient cities have. "Beijing Walks" presents six
detailed walking tours of the most important historic
quarters of the Chinese capital - the Forbidden City, the
former Legation Quarter, Beihai Park, the Temple of
Heaven, the Confucius Temple, the Summer Palace,
Tiananmen Square, and the Olympic Village. All tours are
placed in their imperial contexts and enlivened with
traditional maps, drawings and photographs. Cohn offers
vital information on everything from feng shui, Pekingese
dogs and Peking duck to Peking Opera and the emperors'
private lives, evoking the sights, sounds and smells of
old Peking, its pleasures and its grandeur.
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