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发表于2024-07-12
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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
题材很特别,是根据作者离开中国前沿着312国道从上海到新疆一路经历所写成的。里面很多的社会现实对我来说并不感到新奇,但是仍有很多作者的讨论和观点很深刻,能给人启发。对于第一次读这类外国人写的中国读物的人来说,的确是“从一个外国人眼里,又重新了解了一次自己的祖国”。
评分读得真爽,好想去赛里木湖==齐福德应该没想到第五代会是包子这种奇葩领导的吧。
评分果然是IR出身的作者...不能不说这些论调读多了有些没新意,而且很多似乎可以深入的话题只被简单几句采访带过,有点失望。
评分Moderate tone and balanced opinions about China
评分题材很特别,是根据作者离开中国前沿着312国道从上海到新疆一路经历所写成的。里面很多的社会现实对我来说并不感到新奇,但是仍有很多作者的讨论和观点很深刻,能给人启发。对于第一次读这类外国人写的中国读物的人来说,的确是“从一个外国人眼里,又重新了解了一次自己的祖国”。
引人入胜的行文,有趣而不同的视角,去年在网上听过他为NPR做的播报,现在才不经意间看到他这本书。拿到之后从晚饭一直读,读到第二天早上6点钟才读完-这就是所谓拿起来放不下的那种读物。 喜欢他的英式冷幽默,经常让人在沉重的阅读之间忍俊不禁。 只是对他在文中表现出的很...
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...
评分与照片上相比,Rob Gifford留着大胡子,看上去有些老,让人疑心是他的哥哥来了。跟几个月前贝淡宁(Daniel A. Bell)的号召力差不多,他昨晚在北京书虫的见面会吸引了众多读者,好些人是站着听完的。作为美国NPR电台的英国记者,Gifford不像贝淡宁那样文弱的书生,声音大,也更...
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...
China Road pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024