Unique: Among hundreds of China books coming in the Olympic year of 2008, there is none like this. Some few will stand out to critics and consumers this is one of them. Indelible: An unforgettable portrait of one of the world's greatest, most intriguing cities, in the throes of transformation. Intimate: Meyer is an insider living among the Chinese and brings a level of compassion and insight that many other journalists don't have.
Michael Meyer first went to China in 1995 with the Peace Corps, where he lived for two years before moving to Beijing. A Minnesota native, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California-Berkeley with degrees in education. He was also Blakemore Fellow at Tsinghua University, concentrating on Beijing's urban planning and architecture. A Lowell Thomas Award winner for travel writing, Meyer has published stories in Time, Smithsonian, the New York Times Book Review, the Financial Times, Reader's Digest, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, among others. In China, he has represented the National Geographic Society's Center for Sustainable Destinations, training China's UNESCO World Heritage Site managers in preservation practices. The Last Days of Old Beijing is his first book. He lives in New York.
"It's rare that a writer truly lives a book, commits himself to the rhythms of a place, and turns research into something deeper. For the past two years, Mike Meyer has lived and taught in the hutong neighborhoods of Beijing; nobody writing in English knows this world as well as he does." Peter Hessler, author of River Town and Oracle Bones.
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