Beijing : a concise history /
Haw, Stephen G.
London : Routledge,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-205) and index.
Introduction: the northern capital -- At the edge of the north China Plain : the location and prehistory of  the Beijing area -- Chinese or barbarian? : c. 2,000 BCE to 581 CE -- Regained and lost : the Sui, Tang, Liao and Jin dynasties, 581 to 1215 -- Destroyed and rebuilt : the Mongol conquest and the new city of Dadu, 1215 to 1368 -- Chinese capital : the Ming dynasty, 1368 to 1644 -- Change of mandate : the Manchu conquest, 1644-1860 -- Besieged : the late Qing dynasty, 1860-1911 -- Northern peace? : the republic, the warlords, and Communist  Revolution, 1911-1949 -- Pride restored : the People's Republic of China, 1949-1976 -- The modern city : 1976 to the present.