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　　The City of Intellectuals—Beijing Through the centuries is an illustrated documentary book about Beijing's local history and traditional cultures.The whole book，with detailed historcal materials and beautiful Pictures，is a chronicle of Beijing's evolution in the last 500 thousand years，espcially that in the Yuan，mingand Qing dynasties，after which Beijing became an international metropolis.For Beijing's politics，trades and religions in each era.the book emphasizes the cultures，arts.gardens.architures，imperial lives and common people's traditions.So，this booknot only has an overall and systematic content about Beijing，but also has its values in cultures and arts;it gives us both a historical narration and an international angle to represent the historical views of the ancient capital city Beijing.

　　Mr.Yan Chongnian is a professor of the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences and Deputy President of China Society of the Forbidden City.His researches are focused on the history of Manchuria，the history of the Qing Dynasty and Beijing's history.His theses collections include;Theses on the Manchurian Culture，Theses on the History of Beijing，Early These on the History of Beijing，Theses on Yuan Chonghuan，etc;his academic works include，Biography of Nurhachi，Biography of Yuan Chonghuan，the Reign of Taizu in the General History of the Qing Dynasty，the Reignof Taizong in the general History of the Qing Dynasty.