Michael Meyer participated in the Bellagio residency program in 2011. During this residency, he worked on In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the
There is no such place as Manchuria, but the word still resonates like a bell struck a century before. The region is now more prosaically called dongbei the northeast yet its contemporary toponyms sing of its imperial past, when it was the homeland of the Manchu, China’s last dynastic rulers: White Banner township, Princess Tomb City, and a river named Scaly Dragon, for the