My Son Is Half American, Half Manchurian

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Michael Meyer, 'What Are You?' They Ask My Son. At 5, he doesn't quite understand what it means to be 'biracial.' 'I'm a boy,' he says. Wall Street Journal, Oct 31, 2017 )op-ed).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wha ... k-my-son-1509402749
http://luxlibertas.com/what-are-you-they-ask-my-son/

Note:
(a) Benjamin (short form: Ben, nickname: Benny or Benjy)
(b) Japanese-English dictionary:
* daburu ダブル (n): "(1) double; (2) (abbr[eviation]) (See ダブルベッド) double bed; hotel room with a double bed; (3) (abbr) (See ダブルブレスト) double-breasted; (4) double-cuffed; (5) (abbr) (See ダブル幅) double width (of cloth; usu. 1.42 meters); (6) (abbr) {sports} (See ダブルス) doubles (eg in tennis); (n) (7) (alternative to ハーフ [katakana for 'half']) (See ハーフ・2) biracial person (esp. half-Japanese); person of mixed parentage"

(c)
(i)
(A) Michael Meyer (travel writer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Meyer_(travel_writer)
(B) Michael Meyer. University of Pittsburgh, undated.
http://www.writing.pitt.edu/people/faculty/michael-meyer
(C) personal website, undated
https://inmanchuria.com/about/
(photo)

Perhap a photo of a YOUNGER Meyer.
(ii) his wife (in chronological order):
(A) South China Morning Post, Feb 21, 2015
http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/bo ... huria-michael-meyer
(book review on Michael Meyer, In Manchuria; A village called Wasteland and the transformation of rural China. Bloomsbury, 2015; "Meyer's wife, Frances, a corporate lawyer in Hong Kong, plays a key role, although she is rarely present. Her family connections to Wasteland give the author a clever connection to the place, people and culture - making this book as much about an American who lives in his wife's childhood village as an examination of rural culture in northeastern China")
(B) Larry Rohter, Vanishing Way of Life for Peasants in China. New York Times, Mar 9, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/ ... ng-rural-china.html
(book review on In Manchuria; "It [The book] is part travelogue, part sociological study, part reportage and part memoir, but it is also a love offering to Mr. Meyer’s wife, Frances, who grew up in the unfortunately named Wasteland, the village that Mr Meyer chooses as his base near the start of this decade, and to the unborn son [the future Benji] she is carrying by the time 'In Manchuria' ends")
(C) Haydee Camacho, Michael Meyer Recalls His Year as a Cullman Center Fellow. New York Public Library, July 19, 2016 (under the heading "Interviews")
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/07/19/michael-meyer-in-manchuria
("The book discusses his time in the childhood village of his wife, Frances, in the northeastern China region and explores its history of foreign presence")
(iii) The surname Meyer may be
(i) German and Dutch: "from Middle High German meier, a status name for a steward, bailiff, or overseer, which later came to be used also to denote a tenant farmer, which is normally the sense in the many compound surnames formed with this term as a second element;"
(ii) Jewish (Ashkenazic): "from the Yiddish personal name Meyer (from Hebrew Meir ‘enlightener’, a derivative of Hebrew or 'light') "
Dictionary of American Family Names, published by Oxford University Press.