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The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed - Couverture souple

Meyer, Mr Michael

 
9780802717504: The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0802717500 ISBN 13 : 9780802717504
Editeur : Walker & Co, 2009

Synopsis

The Last Days of Old Beijing 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. Weaving historical vignettes of Beijing and China over a thousand years Michael M... Full description

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael Meyer first went to China in 1995 with the Peace Corps. The winner of a Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing, Meyer has also won a Whiting Writers' Award for nonfiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His stories have appeared in the New York Times, Time, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Slate, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. He is the author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, which became a bestseller in China, and he divides his time between Pittsburgh and Singapore.

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Éditeur
Walker & Co
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802717500
ISBN 13 
9780802717504
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
371
Coordonnées du fabricant
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