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Authors :: Woodward, Richard B.
Source :: New York Times. 8/10/2008, Vol. 157 Issue 54398, p7. 0p.
Publication Year :: 2008
Abstract: The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed By Michael Meyer Walker & Co., 356 pages, $25.99 hardcover As China bulldozes its ancient cities in a race to catch up with the West, the government has effectively muzzled public dissenters who question the human and cultural price of its relentless zeal to modernize. The job of relaying to the outside world the increasing anxiety of citizens about what is being lost has been left to foreigners. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]