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In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China

✍ Scribed by Meyer, Michael

Book ID
108296725
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Year
2014
Tongue
English
Weight
580 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781620402863

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✦ Synopsis

In the tradition of In Patagonia and Great Plains , Michael Meyer's In Manchuria is a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting, and historical research, presenting a unique profile of China's legendary northeast territory. 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; indeed, not since Pearl Buck wrote The Good Earth has anyone brought rural China to life as Meyer has here.

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