The last days of old Beijing : life in the vanishing backstreets of a city transformed

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Label

The last days of old Beijing : life in the vanishing backstreets of a city transformed

Title remainder

life in the vanishing backstreets of a city transformed

Statement of responsibility

Michael Meyer

Creator

• Meyer, Michael, 1972-

Subject

• Alleys -- China | Beijing
• Beijing (China) -- Social life and customs
• Streets -- China | Beijing -- History
• Urban renewal -- China | Beijing

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

951/.156

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DS795.7.A2

LC item number

M48 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography