The Book of Beijing: Reading The City

Author(s): Bingbing Shi (Editor)

Location(s): Beijing (Peking)

Genre(s): Short Stories

Era(s): Various

Bringing together fiction from celebrated writers, The Book of Beijing is an anthology of short stories charting the social and and cultural change of Beijing over the last fifty years, creating a literary map of the city.

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