Michael Meyer (Chinese: 梅英东), is an American travel writer and Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Meyer is 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.
Following Peace Corps, he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied writing under Adam Hochschild and Maxine Hong Kingston.
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.
[4] After a five-year clearance delay, his book The Last Days of Old Beijing was published in mainland China 2013.