Cover of The Last Days of Old Beijing

The Last Days of Old Beijing

Life in the Backstreets of a Changing City

by Michael Meyer, Michael J. Meyer

2008 336 pages eng

A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, Dazhalan. Meyer examines how the bonds that hold the neighborhood together are being torn by forced evictions as century-old houses and ways of life are increasingly destroyed to make way for shopping malls, the…

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