Evan Osnos joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008. He was the magazine's correspondent in China, where he lived in a restored house in Beijing north of the Forbidden City, from 2005 until 2013 when he moved to Washington, D.C. He has received many prizes, including the Asia Society's Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Osnos previously worked as the Beijing Bureau Chief of the Chicago Tribune, where he contributed to a series that won a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.
A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'. Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that make up China's story - one that unfolds on remote farms, in glittering mansions, and in the halls of power of the world's largest authoritarian regime. Together they describe the defining clash taking place today: between the individual and the Communist Party's struggle to retain control. Here is a China infused with a sense of boundless possibility and teeming romance. Yet it is also riven by contradictions. It is the world's largest buyer of Rolls Royces and Ferraris yet the word 'luxury' is banned from billboards. It has more Christians than members of the Communist Party. And why does a government that has lifted more people from poverty than any other so strictly restrain freedom of expression? Based on years of research, Age of Ambition is a stunning narrative that reveals China as we have never understood it before.
I hesitated to do a review for a lot of reasons, not least because I skipped some of the chapters towards the end of this book. Yet I think Mr. Osnos must ask himself: To whom, and for what purpose, did he write this book? If this is simply an anthology o...
评分终于把Age of Ambition扫了尾。中后部似乎因为频繁交代几个重要采访对象的后续,稍显拖沓,但总体而言,这本书还是提供了非常愉快、信息量喜人的阅读。 欧逸文2008年至2013年为《纽约客》供稿,不可避免地,他经常被抓来与前任——2000年到2007年《纽约客》驻华记者何伟作比较...
评分这个时代,与其说是野心,不如说是迷茫。表面上看,大家唯成功论,“捉到老鼠就是好猫”,有钱,有车,有房。各种比拼优越感的时代。形形色色的面具之下其实虚掩的则是一种无知的危机感,迷茫,迷失甚至沦丧。适时的自我催眠,正能量,积极向上,凡事都要看到好的方面,努力求...
评分China’s Censored World By EVAN OSNOS MAY 2, 2014 In February, while I finished work on a book about China, a publishing company in Shanghai asked for an early copy, in order to begin a translation. The book follows people I’ve come to know, some prom...
He should continue. So many new topics since last summer.
评分想记录看完这本书的一刻。 我最赞赏的角度就是职业记者理应所处的角度,纯粹的记录。看到 @Duree 的短评里面,作者本人的回答“显然中国的故事尚未完结”,秉持这种客观独立冷静纯粹的态度让我们得以更全面的了解我们所处的时代。而这样的一个态度,也让我好奇如今写下的这几句文字的结局,先消失的,是评论,还是条目,还是豆瓣,还是?
评分有人说,老大是好的,就是手下不顶事,老贪钱偷钱,以前我也相信是这样的,但现在发觉,其实老大也贪钱偷钱,还偷的更凶。
评分虽然欧逸文和彼得·海斯勒写得都是中国社会观察,但欧逸文是典型的记者,重在客观观察、向西方社会揭示他所在的八年中国社会的核心变化,那也无怪乎他提取的都是一些重大事件,熟练于翻墙的中国读者难免觉得他冷漠以及老生常谈。但尽管如此,他还是提供了许多我不知道的细节,以及因为此书追踪到2013年,相比彼得·海斯勒所写的90年代的江城、陈梦家的经历,许多事件和评书更有切身体会。 而彼得·海斯勒更像是创作者,《甲骨文》一书最为显著,即使串写中国社会几十年的变迁,也有意识挑选并不广为人所知的个体入手,并在写作技巧上有明显的打磨,几条线索反复穿插,但思路明晰,也不显素材堆砌(这一点欧逸文差太远,或者说意不在此),我想这就是所谓创作者的自觉。
评分那些年我知道的事和我不知道的细节。私译名是“狂望时代”,欲望,希望和失望皆张狂的年代。作者连贯的叙事逻辑有效解决了多重跳跃叙事易造成的碎片化问题,确实写得一手好文章。
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