ISBN:

• 9780674027794
• 0674027795

Description: xxxi, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

Notes:

• "First published in the United Kingdom by Profile Books ... London"--T.p.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• A palace of blood and tears
• The architecture of hierarchy
• Rise and decline
• A day in the reign
• The dowager
• Within and without the palace
• Three hundred years on
• The banquet of history.

LCCN: 2007040893

Control Number: 164870

Series:

• Wonders of the World
• Wonders of the world.

Subjects: Forbidden City (Beijing, China) -- History.