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March 13, 2006
Wu Hung Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space Chicago: University of Chicago Press in association with Reaktion Books, 2004. 240 pp.; 60 color ills.; 133 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (0226360784)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2006.29

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Wu Hung, Chinese born, has become a well-known U.S. art historian. Author of a number of distinguished books discussing the art of his native country, in Remaking Beijing he tells the history of Tiananmen Square, the gate to the Imperial Palace. Every tourist who goes to Beijing visits this central site. Coming from the east, you go north to buy a ticket and enter the Forbidden City. But if you walk south just before entering...