The last days of old Beijing : life in the backstreets of a city transformed / Michael Meyer.
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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| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Walker & Company, 2008. |
| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Through the front gate
- Becoming teacher plumblossom
- Mocky & me
- "Say farewell to dangerous housing"
- Wintertime
- A brief history of part one: traces of pre-Beijing
- The evening news
- High times in happiness city
- Preserving a sense of place
- Springtime
- A brief history of part two: the rise and fall of Imperial Beijing
- The unslumming slum
- Saving the old street
- A summer of recycling
- Past tense vs. future tense
- A brief history of part three: the modernization of Republican Beijing
- Miss Zhu remembers the trees
- "If someone is sick and you do not aid him, it is your fault, not his"
- The widow's story
- A brief history of part four: the industrialization of Maoist Beijing
- Echo wall.