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The forbidden city / Geremie R. Barme

by Geremie R. Barme

This history examines the Forbidden City's five-century role as the centre of the Chinese empire. It traces its transition from an imperial palace to a refuge for a deposed emperor and its eventual conversion into a public heritage museum.

Accession 18246 ISBN 9780674027794 Publisher Harvard University Press
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