Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900.(Book Review)

From: The Historian | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Dillon, Michael | Copyright information

Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900. By Susan Naquin. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xxxvi, 816. $80.00.)

Peking has been the capital of China more or less continuously since 1403 when the Ming dynasty, which had originally established its capital in 1368 in the city of Nanjing on the lower reaches of China's greatest river, the Yangzi, decided to relocate northwards. This was partly for reasons of internal dynastic politics and partly to plac...

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