He the author of The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed, and In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Time, Sports Illustrated, and on NPR's This American Life, as well as on ChinaFile. Meyer is the recipient of many awards and fellowships including a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar fellowship.