Wang Jun’s bestseller City Record now accessible to English audiences

Written in 2003 by the Xinhua journalist Wang Jun, the bestseller on Beijing’s urban transformations has (finally) been translated into English (2011). The English version has been updated by the author and is to date the only edition of the book with over 300 illustrations.

The book, now in its 11th reprint in its Chinese version, uses ten years of research conducted by the journalist to trace fifty years of history and urban policies that have propelled, sometimes brutally, the Chinese capital into modernity.