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As an ancient capital of 800 years' history, Beijing has been going through a much harder modernization process than Shanghai, so it is more revealing and valuable to study its modernization. It is a pity that this promising Beijing study lags far behind that of Shanghai.November, 2003 witnesses an international symposium being held in Peking university named "Beijing: metropolis imagination and cultural memory", which has produced this collection of research papers. A variety of research perspectives and methodologies were adopted to deal with the literature, arts, education, media, religion, architecture, living environment and ethnic awareness of Beijing. The scholarly preciseness, writer's enthusiasm and the curiosity of a traveler all found expression in this collection, which can be considered as a high-quality collection.

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Established in 1902, Peking University Press was the very first Chinese university press. Now it is one of the largest academic and educational publishers in China. It publishes more than 1,500 new titles each year, with 3,000 titles in print.

Since its restoration in 1979, the Peking University Press has published over 10,000 sorts of books and been awarded more than 700 prizes of different levels. In 1993, it was honored with the title of "National Excellent Press". In 2005...    more about