Articles tagged with 'michael-meyer' — 2 found
Summer reading list
Stieg Larsson’s third book Books I read this summer (and recommend) For the preservationist you: The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a CIty Transformed by Michael Meyer For the adventurous youthful side: Undress Me In the Temple Of Heaven: A Memoir by Susan Jane Gilman For an all-out laugh [...]
September 1st, 2011Beijing’s vanishing charm: for a buck, for better living conditions, and for a hefty price
Chicken coup, built atop a home inside a Beijing hutong It’s a bit mysterious to me how my fascination with China began; this far into it, I cant quite retrace the steps back to the beginning. But one of the first books I read about the country was journalist Ian Johnson’s Wild Grass: Three Portraits [...]
July 21st, 2010