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life in the vanishing backstreets of a city transformed

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The last days of old Beijing
Michael J. Meyer
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An edition of The last days of old Beijing (2008)

The last days of old Beijing

life in the vanishing backstreets of a city transformed

1st U.S. ed.

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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 capital's first Wal-Mart, high-rise buildings, and widened streets for cars replacing bicycles. Beijing has gone through this cycle many times, as Meyer reveals, but never with the kind of dislocation and overturning of its storied culture now occurring as the city prepares to host the 2008 Summer Olympics--From publisher description.

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Walker & Company
Language
English
Pages
355

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Subjects
Social life and customs, History, Streets, Alleys, Urban renewal
Places
Beijing, China, Beijing (China)

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-339) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
DS795.7.A2 M48 2008

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Pagination
vii, 355 p. :
Number of pages
355

ID Numbers

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OL22861129M
ISBN 10
0802716520
ISBN 13
9780802716521
LCCN
2008015546
Library Thing
4578136
Goodreads
2723256

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