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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
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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...
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...
評分我觉得齐福德同学的这本书是一本很有意思的反应中国社会现实的社普类读物，最大的亮点就是里面有很多中文词汇及成语的英文翻译。 单凭他在中国20年的经历，就能想象他中文英文的功力之强。远至孔孟老庄，近至鲁迅老毛，对他们的经典语录真是顺手拈来，着实佩服。此书开头的一...
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...
用戶評價
題材很特彆，是根據作者離開中國前沿著312國道從上海到新疆一路經曆所寫成的。裏麵很多的社會現實對我來說並不感到新奇，但是仍有很多作者的討論和觀點很深刻，能給人啓發。對於第一次讀這類外國人寫的中國讀物的人來說，的確是“從一個外國人眼裏，又重新瞭解瞭一次自己的祖國”。
评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。
评分作者從安利從業者身上看到瞭中國的希望我也是醉瞭。
评分非常贊的一本書，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.....
评分有點超齣預料,寫得非常好,作者還是有偏見的,但從對中國的瞭解度而言,作為一個西方人已經是很難得的中立瞭,有些思考的角度還是很發人深省的.
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