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Legends of the Building of Old Peking, Hardback Book

Legends of the Building of Old Peking Hardback

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Legends of the Building of Old Peking is a study of a series of unique popular legends surrounding the building of the imperial cities in old Peking, including the Nazha City legend of the Yuan ""Great Capital"" and the Ming ""Northern Capital,"" and the Mongol legend of ""sitting by bowshot to locate the capital city"" and its Chinese adaptations...The book is a unique study of the historical origins of the building of old Peking as well as the genesis and efflorescence of related popular culture in the modern capital of China.

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