Paul Wheatley, The Pivot of the Four Quarters: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City (Chicago: Aldine, 1971); Jeffrey F. Meyer, The Dragons of Tiananmen: Beijing as a Sacred City (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991).
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The authors make much use of Susan Naquin's massive study of Ming-Qing Beijing's religious communities, Naquin, Peking: Temples and City Life, 1400-1900 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
3.
One of the few good English books on Beijing that does not appear in the bibliography is H. Y. Lowe's The Adventures of Wu: The Life Cycle of a Peking Man, which originally appeared as a serial in the Peking Chronicle in 1940 and then was reprinted by Princeton University Press in 1983, with an introduction by Derk Bodde.
4.
For a good introduction to the "public sphere/civil society" debate in the Chinese history field, see the essays in Modern China 19, no. 4 (April 1993).
5.
Bryna Goodman, Native Place, City, and Nation: Regional Networks and Identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
6.
Richard Belsky , "The Urban Ecology of Late Imperial Beijing Reconsidered: The Transformation of Social Space in China's Late Imperial Capital City,"Journal of Urban History27, no. 1 (November 2000): 54-74.
