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Just finishing up The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed by Michael Meyer.
It's a very interesting read for those wanting to know about China in the recent past. There is a good deal of the author jumping back in time with info you need to know as you absorb what is happening in the current time of the book. The book focuses on the sweeping changes the government made to residential areas in and around Beijing in the years leading up to the 2008 Summer Olympics.
It took me a while to finish the book because I'd read a chapter, then put it aside. I couldn't read it like I would read a piece of fiction. But I have enjoyed it and would like to read more by the author. I have another book by him about rural China, In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China that I plan to start in a couple of weeks.
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