The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed by Michael Meyer

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

Michael Meyer

355 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative reflective slow-paced
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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 invade...

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