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ChinaFile Presents: “In Manchuria” with Michael Meyer and Ian Buruma

Join writers Michael Meyer and Ian Buruma for a discussion of one of China’s most historically complex and important regions. Meyer’s new book, In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China, combines immersion journalism, memoir, exhaustive historical research and a love story to create a portrait of the momentous changes underway in China’s often-overlooked countryside. He spent three years in a rice-farming village, hometown to his wife’s family, recording the rhythms of daily life, as the villagers make the transition from family farming to corporate agriculture. But he also traverses China’s northeast, searching for traces its lost history, probing the legacy of its multiple foreign occupations, and capturing its aspirations for the future, with insight and great heart.

Book signing to follow discussion.











When: Wed., Feb. 18, 2015 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Ave.
212-288-6400
Price: Members $5, students/seniors $5, non-members, $10
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Join writers Michael Meyer and Ian Buruma for a discussion of one of China’s most historically complex and important regions. Meyer’s new book, In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China, combines immersion journalism, memoir, exhaustive historical research and a love story to create a portrait of the momentous changes underway in China’s often-overlooked countryside. He spent three years in a rice-farming village, hometown to his wife’s family, recording the rhythms of daily life, as the villagers make the transition from family farming to corporate agriculture. But he also traverses China’s northeast, searching for traces its lost history, probing the legacy of its multiple foreign occupations, and capturing its aspirations for the future, with insight and great heart.

Book signing to follow discussion.

Buy tickets/get more info now