In Manchuria : a village called Wasteland and the transformation of rural China

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In Manchuria : a village called Wasteland and the transformation of rural China

Title remainder

a village called Wasteland and the transformation of rural China

Statement of responsibility

Michael Meyer

Creator

• Meyer, Michael, 1972-

Subject

• Manchuria (China) -- Description and travel
• Manchuria (China) -- Rural conditions
• Manchuria (China) -- Social life and customs
• Farm life -- China | Manchuria
• Rice farmers -- China | Manchuria
• Rice farming -- China | Manchuria
• Meyer, Michael, 1972- -- Travel -- China | Manchuria

Language

eng

Summary

Not since Pearl Buck wrote The Good Earth has anyone brought rural China to life as Michael Meyer has here. This combination of memoir, contemporary reporting, and historical research presents a unique profile of China's legendary northeast. For three years, Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown to his wife's family, and their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing, in the form of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights. Once a commune, Wasteland is now a company town, a phenomenon happening across China that Meyer documents for the first time. Amplifying the story of family and Wasteland, Meyer takes us on a journey across Manchuria's past, a history that explains much about contemporary China, from the fall of the last emperor to Japanese occupation and Communist victory. Through vivid local characters, Meyer illuminates the remnants of the imperial Willow Palisade, Russian and Japanese colonial cities and railways, and the POW camp into which a young American sergeant parachuted to free survivors of the Bataan Death March.--From publisher description

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

951/.80612

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DS782.3

LC item number

.M47 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography