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A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, Dazhalan. Meyer examines how the bonds that hold the neighborhood together are being torn by forced evictions as century-old houses and ways of life are increasingly destroyed to make way for shopping malls, the capital's first Wal-Mart, high-rise buildings, and widened streets for cars replacing bicycles. Beijing has gone through this cycle many times, as Meyer...
2) Diners, bowling alleys and trailer parks: chasing the American dream in the postwar consumer culture
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The author explores the 1940s and '50s transformation of diners, bowling alleys, and trailer parks which "became physical manifestations of a newly urgent desire on the part of blue collar families to both enter the middle class and celebrate their arrival."--Jacket
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