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Brunt recounts a visit to one of Beijing’s main historical monuments and tourist attractions—the Temple of Heaven—and outlines the central role it played in regulating Chinese society and government under the Qing dynasty (which was eventually overthrown in 1912, after ruling for nearly 300 years). In many ways, modern China—and its current president—harks back to the idealized hegemony of the Qing dynasty, so this is an important ideological benchmark.
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Brunt, L. (2017). The Temple of Heaven. In: China from the Inside. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65672-4_4
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