[Download pdf ebook] The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
♛ Michael Meyer ♛
| #366314 in Books | 2008-06-24 | 2008-06-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.12 x1.25 x6.76l,1.10 | File Name: 0802716520 | 368 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| I loved this book|By Ron Webb|I have been living in Beijing only seven months but have walked around the Dazhalan neighborhood where Michael Meyer lived in the late 1990's. It is very much the same today (2013) thanks to economic circumstances and to preservation no doubt inspired by Meyer's book. This book tells the whole story about how Beijing was systematically destroyed|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Just in time for the Summer Olympics in Beijing, the Old City's narrow lanes and shops are being bulldozed and their residents displaced to make way for Wal-Marts, shopping centers and high-rise apartments. Part memoir, part hi
A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes.
Soon we will be able to say about old Beijing that what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn’t eradicate, the market economy has. Nobody has been more aware of this than Michael Meyer. A long-time resident, Meyer has, for the past two years, lived a...
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