The Last Days of Old Beijing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Days of Old Beijing write by Michael Meyer. This book was released on 2010-07-23. The Last Days of Old Beijing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.
Peking Story
Peking Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peking Story write by David Kidd. This book was released on 2008. Peking Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A haunting and delicately observed description of the last days of Mandarin culture before the revolution, 'Peking Story' is a testimony to a way of life, a culture, an aesthetic and a civilisation which has since completely disappeared.
Midnight in Peking
Midnight in Peking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Midnight in Peking write by Paul French. This book was released on 2012-04-24. Midnight in Peking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
In Manchuria
In Manchuria - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Manchuria write by Michael Meyer. This book was released on 2015-02-17. In Manchuria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the change most of rural China is undergoing via the story of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed apartments for farmers in exchange for their land rights.
Peking Story
Peking Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peking Story write by David Kidd. This book was released on 2003-07-31. Peking Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For two years before and after the 1948 Communist Revolution, David Kidd lived in Peking, where he married the daughter of an aristocratic Chinese family. "I used to hope," he writes, "that some bright young scholar on a research grant would write about us and our Chinese friends before it was too late and we were all dead and gone, folding into the darkness the wonder that had been our lives." Here Kidd himself brings that wonder to life.
