Michael Meyer (travel writer)

Michael Meyer (Chinese: 梅英东), an American travel writer and the author of The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground up; In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China; and The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed. He graduated from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He first went to China in 1995 with the Peace Corps. Following Peace Corps, he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied writing under Adam Hochschild and Maxine Hong Kingston.

His work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Smithsonian, the New York Times Book Review, the Financial Times, Reader’s Digest, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, and on This American Life.

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.[1]

He divides his year between London and Pittsburgh, where he is a Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, teaching nonfiction writing.[2] He is an avid long distance runner.[3]

After a five-year clearance delay, his book The Last Days of Old Beijing was published in mainland China.[4]

Awards

Works
  • "The Last Days of Old Beijing". National Geographic Intelligent Traveler. May 13, 2009. Archived from the original on June 7, 2010.

Books
gollark: Probably not people who violate ALL rules, but ones who violate *some subset* of them in interesting ways.
gollark: If you go out of your way to do exactly the opposite of what "rules" say, they have as much control over you as they do on someone who does exactly what the rules *do* say.
gollark: I'm glad you're making sure to violate norms in socially approved ways which signify you as "out there" or something.
gollark: > if you can convince them that their suffering benefits other people, then they'll happily submit to itI am not convinced that this is actually true of people, given any instance of "selfishness" etc. ever.
gollark: Yes, you can only make something optimize effectively for good if you can define what that is rigorously, and people haven't yet and wouldn't agree on it.

References
  1. http://us.macmillan.com/AuthorDetails.aspx?AuthorKey=4513
  2. http://www.writing.pitt.edu/people/faculty/michael-meyer
  3. https://www.outsideonline.com/2194156/our-favorite-writers-why-they-run
  4. Meyer, Michael (August 9, 2013). "See You Again, Old Beijing: My book was banned in China for five years. Then they cleared it—and let me visit on a book tour". Slate.
  5. https://www.ncuscr.org/pip
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