Cities On Interview Notebooks

Cities on Interview Notebooks (2007)
by Wang Jun
Published by SDX Joint Publishing Co.
Sold by Crappy Old Books

A city is more than just streets and buildings—it’s memory in motion. In Cities on Interview Notebooks, acclaimed journalist Wang Jun turns his keen eye and sharp pen to the rapidly vanishing landscapes of urban China. Through meticulous interviews and field notes scribbled on the fly, Wang documents the voices, lives, and architecture swallowed by the breakneck modernization of Beijing and beyond.

This 2007 volume is a textured collage of urban storytelling—part oral history, part investigative reportage. It reads like a quietly urgent time capsule, capturing neighborhoods erased, traditions dismantled, and people displaced in the name of progress. Wang’s notebooks are humble, dog-eared testaments to what the bulldozers left behind.

Now sold in its naturally scuffed and coffee-stained glory by Crappy Old Books, Cities on Interview Notebooks is a compelling, poignant read for anyone curious about China’s modern transformation—and the cost of forgetting.

Perfect for lovers of urban studies, oral history, and books that still smell like 2007.

This is all in chinese apart from the ISBN number.

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