Book Review: In Manchuria

The head of the chicken that is the map of China is more or less in the place that we would call Manchuria. Dongbei (the Northeast) as it’s more commonly known now is bitterly cold in winter, desolate, and pocked by mines and heavy industry.

For this book, Mike Meyer parks himself in a lonely Dongbei village called Wasteland for a year. The village’s mai…