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发表于2024-12-23
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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
非常贊的一本書,二十年前的中國,從上海閤肥河南寜夏新疆西藏,東部主要體現地方政權問題,西部主要是宗教民族問題,采訪部分挺到位。書中多次提到瞭8九,河殤,對中國人的性格刻畫倒是挺生動。個人覺得比country driving好很多,可惜作者在網上的信息不多.....
評分Moderate tone and balanced opinions about China
評分最尼瑪煩這種帶有明顯優越感的寫作風格瞭。和何偉比起來,Rob還僅僅是個學生,差得遠。作者明顯的帶有一種先入為主的道德判斷,老外依舊無法讀懂天朝的老毛病依舊存在。全書中記述很少,轉述很多,然後被這種不知道正不正確的轉述引發的所謂的獨立思考來潛移默化凸顯優越感。感想大篇而實際上老調重彈一點也沒什麼突破。Rob總是在以一種基於他們宗教情結下“白人至上”的典型保守主義心態來閱讀中國。公正地說,和那些極度偏激的non-fiction相比,這部書還是保持瞭一種試圖不左不右的立場,可惜的是作者自身的“保守主義”情節下,使得作者字裏行間中充滿道德標杆,因此他試圖不偏不倚變成虛空。另外,全書中天朝特色詞匯的英譯值得學翻譯的同學看看,除此之外,這隻是一部寫給外國人看並且迎閤那些他們道德優越感的一本書而已。以上。
評分最尼瑪煩這種帶有明顯優越感的寫作風格瞭。和何偉比起來,Rob還僅僅是個學生,差得遠。作者明顯的帶有一種先入為主的道德判斷,老外依舊無法讀懂天朝的老毛病依舊存在。全書中記述很少,轉述很多,然後被這種不知道正不正確的轉述引發的所謂的獨立思考來潛移默化凸顯優越感。感想大篇而實際上老調重彈一點也沒什麼突破。Rob總是在以一種基於他們宗教情結下“白人至上”的典型保守主義心態來閱讀中國。公正地說,和那些極度偏激的non-fiction相比,這部書還是保持瞭一種試圖不左不右的立場,可惜的是作者自身的“保守主義”情節下,使得作者字裏行間中充滿道德標杆,因此他試圖不偏不倚變成虛空。另外,全書中天朝特色詞匯的英譯值得學翻譯的同學看看,除此之外,這隻是一部寫給外國人看並且迎閤那些他們道德優越感的一本書而已。以上。
評分長期受雇於通訊社,齊福德的文筆肯定沒得說,同時也有英國人的幽默。書裏記述的體驗旅程,沿著312國道從東到西,穿越多個省份,不管自然氣候、地形地貌,還是經濟條件、民生狀況,差彆都挺大的,確實是個瞭解中國的辦法,但這麼大的國傢,不管曆史或現實,所牽涉的事物繁多復雜,真的不是三個月走馬觀花式的旅行就能看得清也說得清的。好多人贊美何偉,是因為何偉能看到普通人的無奈和無助,如果齊福德能像何偉紮根於某個三四五綫小城鎮,停留時間長點,多接觸多觀察,可能很多感悟就不一樣瞭。同樣是在英國舊書店淘到的書,除瞭紙張略有隨時間沉澱的老舊痕跡,其他基本和新書無異,隻要3.5鎊。
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...
評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...
評分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...
評分与照片上相比,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...
評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...
China Road pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024