Urban Spaces and Cultural Imaginations in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Films
by
Yiran Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
One of the oldest cities in the world, Beijing was an imperial capital for centuries. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Beijing became not only the political center of the new communist country, but also the signifier of socialist ideol-ogy and revolutionary culture....