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Looking at the cost of modernization, a British journalist and specialist on East Asian history focuses on Beijing as it prepares for the 2008 Olympics to reveal how a thousand years of priceless historical treasures, monuments, shrines, and landmarks have been swept away to make way for residential developments, blocks of office towers, shopping malls, and other "progress."
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Jasper Becker, an award-winning author, has worked as a foreign correspondent for twenty-five years, including fifteen years based in Beijing. He is author ofHungry Ghosts, The Chinese, and, most recently, Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea. An expert on East Asian history and politics, Becker's work has been featured inThe Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New Republic, The London Review of Books, National Geographic, andTime Asia.
Jasper Becker, an award-winning author, has worked as a foreign correspondent for twenty-five years, including fifteen years based in Beijing. He is author ofHungry Ghosts, The Chinese, and, most recently, Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea. An expert on East Asian history and politics, Becker's work has been featured inThe Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New Republic, The London Review of Books, National Geographic, andTime Asia.
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- PublisherOxford University Press, USA
- Publication date2008
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- ISBN 13 9780195309973
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