Peter Hessler is a graduate of Princeton and Oxford, and has written for The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly and other publications. Raised in the United States, he now lives in Beijing.
When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of understanding that takes place when one is thrust into a radically different society - surpassed anything he could have imagined. Hessler observes firsthand how major events such as the death of Deng Xiaoping, the return of Hong Kong to the mainland, and the controversial consturction of the Three Gorges Dam have affected even the people of a remote town like Fuling. Poignant, thoughtful and utterly compelling, "River Town" is an unforgettable portrait of a place caught mid-river in time, much like China itself - a country seeking to understand both what it was and what it will one day become.
读《江城》的时候,想起两组摄影,骆丹的318国道系列和严明的大国志。在初初看这两组摄影时,会有轻微不适,好像自身是局外人,他们镜头里的中国不再是我熟知的那个国度,更像是异次元空间,荒诞,充斥着各种象征和反讽,如果硬要用一个标准性的词来定性,应该是魔幻现实主义。...
评分一本《寻路中国》让何伟在中国知识圈炙手可热,几乎登上了每一家我所见到的媒体。这本《River Town》则记录了第一次来中国时的青涩感观。《寻路中国》之所以一石激起千层浪,是因为他给了我国人一种旁观者的视角来反躬自省,书中令我们眼前一亮、心头一颤的论断遍地皆是,仿佛...
评分原文链接 http://www.ilmare.cn/?p=225 看何伟(Peter Hessler)的这本书其实是一个非常愉快的过程,这本书是我的老师文中先生推荐的。拿到这本书是10月初的事情了。这两个月一直断断续续地看着River Town,这本书算是我看过的第一本真正意义上的原版书籍。 这是一个美国人描...
评分《江城》中,何伟写到的最后一场冲突发生在他离开涪陵之前。他和同事亚当想拍一些片子,作为他们曾经在这个小城生活过见证。他们想拍下一切关于涪陵的记忆,他们走过的街道,生活过的校园,交往的学生,结交的朋友,还有那些依然生活在这里的普通人。何伟原本以为,普通人很难...
Reading this book is an amazing trip,as if you live in Fuling with the author . Ho Wei says he describes a remote rive town,which is just a small part of China. However I think the humanity and personality of Chinese represented in the book are common. Anyway,this is a masterpiece and the touching text is beyond my poor English description.
评分如何理解这个魔幻的中国,我在苦苦的需找答案……
评分Hessler 说,we are exchanging cliche without knowing it, 因此都获得了感动。作为一个作者,他虽然无法摆脱至上而下的优越视角,但因了他一些不动声色的偏爱和辩解,整本书也显得柔软起来。
评分这部书里有太多我可以identify的东西,美国外教,四川,peace corps,英语专业,英美文学……让我想起Tony, Cyndi and Aaron。美国人的观点彼此之间也很类似,何伟对中国政治社会的见解往往也和我的外国朋友差不多。大一大二大三参加哲学俱乐部,读书俱乐部等等,这些“非官方活动”重新塑造了我,给我新的启蒙。怀念那些在85度c闲聊的夏夜,希望有机会能跟他们重逢。
评分humble and earnest
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