史明正:《走向近代化的北京城——城市建设与社会变革》,北京大学出版社,1995年出版,共309页,24万字。目前,国外学术界有关中国城市近代化的研究大都集中在沿海城市,尤其是上海。对于北京,研究者多对其作为古老都城的历 Shi Mingzheng: “Towards a Modernized Beijing City - Urban Construction and Social Transformation”, Peking University Press, 1995, 309 pages, 240,000 words. At present, most of the researches on the modernization of Chinese cities in foreign academic circles are concentrated in coastal cities, especially in Shanghai. For Beijing, researchers mostly regard their history as the ancient capital