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Legends of the Building of Old Peking
Hok-lam Chan
A study of a series of 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.
420 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.)
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 30, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9789629963132 |
| Publishers | The Chinese University Press |
| Pages | 420 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 774 g |
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