Michael Meyer on In Manchuria – London 15/2/16 – SOAS
Posted: February 12th, 2016 | No Comments »Monday, 15 February 2016
Since arriving in the country as one of its first Peace Corps volunteers 20 years ago, Michael Meyer has witnessed and written about the transformation of China, at the level of both an urban neighbourhood and a remote village. His award-winning first book The Last Days of Old Beijing (Bloomsbury) documented changes in the daily life in the capital’s oldest neighbourhood as the city remade itself for the 2008 Olympics. In his second book In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China (Bloomsbury) he describes a town of family rice farms being developed into a corporate agribusiness.
Amplifying the story of family and Wasteland, Meyer — via photographs — will take 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.  Meyer will also talk about the challenges of reporting from China and how to fund and produce books that reach a wide audience.
Biography
www.soas.ac.uk/china-
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