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发表于2025-02-02
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Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down.
In this utterly surprising and deeply personal book, acclaimed National Public Radio reporter Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes the dramatic journey along Route 312 from its start in the boomtown of Shanghai to its end on the border with Kazakhstan. Gifford reveals the rich mosaic of modern Chinese life in all its contradictions, as he poses the crucial questions that all of us are asking about China: Will it really be the next global superpower? Is it as solid and as powerful as it looks from the outside? And who are the ordinary Chinese people, to whom the twenty-first century is supposed to belong?
Gifford is not alone on his journey. The largest migration in human history is taking place along highways such as Route 312, as tens of millions of people leave their homes in search of work. He sees signs of the booming urban economy everywhere, but he also uncovers many of the country’s frailties, and some of the deep-seated problems that could derail China’s rise.
The whole compelling adventure is told through the cast of colorful characters Gifford meets: garrulous talk-show hosts and ambitious yuppies, impoverished peasants and tragic prostitutes, cell-phone salesmen, AIDS patients, and Tibetan monks. He rides with members of a Shanghai jeep club, hitchhikes across the Gobi desert, and sings karaoke with migrant workers at truck stops along the way.
As he recounts his travels along Route 312, Rob Gifford gives a face to what has historically, for Westerners, been a faceless country and breathes life into a nation that is so often reduced to economic statistics. Finally, he sounds a warning that all is not well in the Chinese heartlands, that serious problems lie ahead, and that the future of the West has become inextricably linked with the fate of 1.3 billion Chinese people.
“Informative, delightful, and powerfully moving . . . Rob Gifford’s acute powers of observation, his sense of humor and adventure, and his determination to explore the wrenching dilemmas of China’s explosive development open readers’ eyes and reward their minds.”
–Robert A. Kapp, president, U.S.-China Business Council, 1994-2004
最尼玛烦这种带有明显优越感的写作风格了。和何伟比起来,Rob还仅仅是个学生,差得远。作者明显的带有一种先入为主的道德判断,老外依旧无法读懂天朝的老毛病依旧存在。全书中记述很少,转述很多,然后被这种不知道正不正确的转述引发的所谓的独立思考来潜移默化凸显优越感。感想大篇而实际上老调重弹一点也没什么突破。Rob总是在以一种基于他们宗教情结下“白人至上”的典型保守主义心态来阅读中国。公正地说,和那些极度偏激的non-fiction相比,这部书还是保持了一种试图不左不右的立场,可惜的是作者自身的“保守主义”情节下,使得作者字里行间中充满道德标杆,因此他试图不偏不倚变成虚空。另外,全书中天朝特色词汇的英译值得学翻译的同学看看,除此之外,这只是一部写给外国人看并且迎合那些他们道德优越感的一本书而已。以上。
评分还行,给外国人还看比较合适,我觉得nothing much new.
评分还行,给外国人还看比较合适,我觉得nothing much new.
评分我觉得作者对于中国的民主进程比中国人自己还要操心。听到强制堕胎那里,作者站着说话不腰疼,这么多人口,不计划生育100年后我们中国人都去喝西北风么。这本书也不会有中文简体版的,书里赤裸裸地支持西藏和新疆独立。。。作者问藏人的话角度都很刁钻。不过关于贫富差距的地方还算说得比较中肯
评分With more than 1/3 of the book devoted to the less traveled west China, the author recorded intriguing observations on the political, social, economic and ethnic transitions spawning along the backbone Route 312. His non-condescending humor, pictorial narration and well-researched historical account made him not just another “ocean people” wondering around the places of interests, but a traveler with genuine interests in figuring out how China people could muddle through the journey of modernity with modest prosperity, harmonious diversity and, most importantly, long-lost cultural identity.
美国全国公共广播电台(NPR)驻华记者Rob Gifford即将调离岗位,美国的编辑问他是否愿意去耶路撒冷做记者。他考虑许久后说,算了。那个时候,他已经预计到,在耶路撒冷报道巴以冲突将会是在一个循环反复的百年故事里打转。他告诉他的编辑,中国,相较之下,她的故事有一种线性...
评分美国全国公共广播电台(NPR)驻华记者Rob Gifford即将调离岗位,美国的编辑问他是否愿意去耶路撒冷做记者。他考虑许久后说,算了。那个时候,他已经预计到,在耶路撒冷报道巴以冲突将会是在一个循环反复的百年故事里打转。他告诉他的编辑,中国,相较之下,她的故事有一种线性...
评分China Road: A Journey into the Future of the Rising Power It is a bit strange to find Rob Gifford’s China Road in the travel section of my local bookshop. Route 312, where the author traveled from end to end, is not exact your typical tourist route. Nor i...
评分Personally my deep love of this sentence makes it an intrinsic part of myself, and so does the author. But, still, I can not see the connection of this citation to the whole book. It is glued at the front and rear of the passage, but not being vivified. Ro...
评分I've been reading quite a lot of books on China, not simply because I love this country, but I've never had a unified opinion about China. My own attitude towards China has always been self-contradictory. This travelogue just echoes my confusion with lively...
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