The Life of an Ordinary Person in Different Period

The Life of an Ordinary Person in Different Period
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Meyer’s depiction of life in China’s Northeast
Introduction
The author of the book Depiction of Life in China’s northeast famously known as Manchuria was set within the context Patagonia and Great Plains. This book is a mixture of historical research, memoir and contemporary reporting. This book represents a peculiar profile of ancient history in the northeast territory of China. Meyer spent three years in a home that he rented in a Wasteland where the major economic activity was rice farming. This place happened to be his wife’s family hometown. According to Meyer, the personal lives or saga of his in-laws is a reflection of the tremendous changes that China as a country was going through in the 21st century. The changes that are taking place in this town were coming in from privately owned rice company that was fulfilling the social responsibilities by engaging in the construction of roads, introduction of organic farming and construction of high-rise apartments to accommodate its workers in the rural areas of the northeast territory of China. It is important to note that rice farmers could only move to the high-rise apartments only after they had agreed to give out their lands. Before arrival of this privately owned company in this area, the lands there were owned communally. The Wasteland has completely transformed into an industrial area with many companies are now available in this area.[Meyer, Michael. In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2015.]
This essay examines the analysis of Michael Meyer’s book Manchuria to describe the lives of at least three different Chinese people that have been introduced in the book by the author.
Detailed Description of Lives of Three Different People Introduced in Meyer’s Manchuria
For a start, In Manchuria is the second book that has been authored by Michael Meyer. This book follows The Last Days of Old Beijing. In Manchuria, the author is using colorful local people of the Wasteland community to be the anchor of his story and eventually and meticulously capture the flavor of colloquial Chinese people. The author depicts the two residents that seem noteworthy and these residents are Auntie Yi, who was a retired cadre of Communist and her brother San Jiu, who is depicted by the author as a quintessential peasant. San Jiu was presented by the author as a being canny and very much attuned to the cycles and interrelated nature which are weather and rice farming. It is important to note that more often than not, the author would astray from his main subject to compensate for the deficiencies that might come up when focusing on the tiny village of Wasteland. Communist party leaders seem to have been compromised by the company owners to convince the peasant rice farmers to give up their lands and homes to move into the high-rise apartments that were built by the Company owners. San Jiu has been used by the author in this book to analyze the current situation of the Wasteland society. San Jiu is depicted as someone who is unhappy about their lifestyles that have been disorganized by the estab...