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- China
- 2009
- Uderground
- 社會
- 文化
- 人文
- 英文版
- 英文原版
- 中国地下世界
- 历史揭秘
- 秘密档案
- 社会观察
- 政治内幕
- 文化探索
- 城市地下
- 真实故事
- 非虚构
- 调查报道
具体描述
Through encounters with sundry artists, musicians, students, bar owners, gangsters, prostitutes, and slackers, Mexico assembles a compelling portrait of China�s contemporary youth culture and the limits of Communist control. The book�s subjects include a twenty-seven-year-old self-taught disaster photographer from the coal country in Shenyang; a twenty-nine-year-old mobster in Qingdao; a twenty-two-year-old Hendrixian Uighur guitar player making a splash in Shanghai; a Beijing university student who wishes that the system encouraged less rote memorization and more original thought; and an investigative journalist who no longer publishes himself, instead leading Western reporters to controversial stories. Mexico, a musician and poet who was a student in Beijing and subsequently managed a night club, has assumed a pseudonym to avoid trouble with the Chinese authorities. While occasionally anxious about his youth and his lack of credentials, he is a good listener and knows how to tell a provocative and illuminating story.
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作者简介
In the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is hard to imagine a place more exciting than China. The country's economy is growing by more than ten percent per year. The lives of Chinese citizens in every stratum of society are changing--indeed, the very rules that define the parameters of their lives are changing. Over a billion people are simultaneously hustling, trying to decipher the rules, carving a place out for themselves in the new China. Predictably, the result is a glorious mess.
Westerners are fascinated with news coming out of China, but in general, most such reporting focuses on the country's economy (growth rates, infrastructure, trade deficits, currency valuation, globalization, etc.), social issues (human rights, income inequality, diseases such as avian flu, SARS, and HIV/Aids, etc.), and the current government (the workings of the CCP, its response to social unrest, etc.). Westerners hear much about China's booming economy and its role as the next global superpower from the mainstream media, but they know less about the young people who make up China's varied and fascinating subcultures.
American writer Zachary Mexico spent two years absorbing information about these subcultures, living in China from 2002-2004. Fascinated with the streets humming with the energy of constant change, he determined to return as soon as possible for the purpose of formal research on the subject of how the changing environment has affected the Chinese of his generation. This he accomplished in the summer of 2006, traveling around the country during an intensive three months of research into the lifestyles of his Chinese peers.
In China Underground, Mexico introduces young western readers to their Chinese counterparts, highlighting an unfamiliar side of China: today's varied youth cultures, which are both fascinating and under-exposed. Readers are introduced to a wannabe rock star from the desert of Xinjiang, trying to make it big in Shanghai; a disillusioned journalist; a budding screenwriter; a vagabond ladies' man; a straight-A student at China's best university; a Chinese mafia kingpin; a punk band trying their best to stay relevant; a prostitute; the world's most polluted city; Beijing's drug-fueled club scene, and many others.
This is an engaging firsthand account of a young American writer's encounter with the new China and the young people who are pursuing their future there. China Underground tells their stories, and some of Mexico's own.
About the author:
Zachary Mexico started studying Chinese at age fifteen, and traveled to China for the first time at age sixteen. He has studied at Columbia University in New York and Qinghua University in Beijing. He plays in the rock group The Octagon (www.theoctagonrock.com) and the electronic duo Gates of Heaven (www.gatesofheaven.net.) He lives in New York City's Chinatown.
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读后感
Hardly a book with refined research in putting together a face to the contemporary China, more the impression of a traveler from the West. Not as in depth as an episode taken from the Lonely Planet show on particular local cultures, not as insightful as an ...
评分全书没啥新观点，基本上就是一个故弄玄虚加“**真相”式的快餐文学大拼盘。忽悠忽悠没出过国的老美还可以，对生长在天朝的咱们来讲，实在没啥新意
评分well, nothing huge, but you do get some unusual insights from an outsider's point of view for China. it's kind interesting to know something you don't know but a foreigner does. P/S. bought this book when I was in Hong Kong, don't think it is allowed in ma...
评分Hardly a book with refined research in putting together a face to the contemporary China, more the impression of a traveler from the West. Not as in depth as an episode taken from the Lonely Planet show on particular local cultures, not as insightful as an ...
评分well, nothing huge, but you do get some unusual insights from an outsider's point of view for China. it's kind interesting to know something you don't know but a foreigner does. P/S. bought this book when I was in Hong Kong, don't think it is allowed in ma...
用户评价
这本书的书名真的很有意思，我拿到手的时候，光是封面那种略带陈旧的质感和那些晦涩的符号就让我充满了好奇。我得说，作者在铺陈世界观方面确实下了大功夫，他构建的那个地下社会，远比我想象的要复杂和多维。你以为它只是一个简单的避难所或者反抗者的藏身地，但深入阅读后，会发现里面有着自己完整的一套政治体系、经济循环，甚至还有一套独特的道德准则。比如，书中对“资源配给制”的描写就极其细腻，不仅仅是食物和水，连空气的流通权和信息获取权都被纳入了严格的管控，这种压抑感透过文字扑面而来，让人不寒而栗。我特别欣赏作者对于人物心理刻画的深度，那些长期生活在阴影下的人，他们的恐惧、他们的希望，以及那种被主流社会抛弃后的扭曲的自豪感，都被刻画得入木三分。我甚至在想，这种极端环境下的生存哲学，是否在某种程度上也折射了我们当下社会中一些被忽略的角落。这本书的叙事节奏很独特，它不像那种一马平川的冒险故事，而是充满了迂回和伏笔，常常在你不经意间，一个看似无关紧要的细节，会在后文爆发出惊人的力量，让你不得不翻回去重读，重新审视之前的所有判断。它不仅仅是一个故事，更像是一份对人类在绝境中如何保持“人性”的深刻拷问。
评分这本书的氛围营造堪称一绝，读完之后感觉身上都沾染了那种潮湿、霉变和金属锈蚀的味道。它不是那种靠着大量动作场面来推动情节的小说，它的紧张感来源于环境本身——那无尽的黑暗、低沉的机械轰鸣、以及空气中无处不在的压力感。作者对光线的运用简直是教科书级别的：每一束偶尔穿透缝隙的光芒，都像是对绝望世界发出的短暂嘲讽，每一次光源的熄灭，都意味着某种希望的彻底破灭。我特别关注了那些描绘日常生活的段落，比如人们如何利用回收的电子元件来制作简陋的乐器，或者如何在仅有的几株培养皿植物旁边举行某种近乎宗教的“丰收”仪式。正是这些极度微小、却又充满生命力的细节，支撑起了整个宏大而压抑的设定。这本书的魅力就在于，它让你相信，即使在最不人道、最受限的环境中，人类依旧会本能地寻找意义和美感，哪怕这种“美感”是建立在腐朽和黑暗之上的。它带给我的冲击是生理层面的，读到某些段落，我甚至能感觉到胸腔被压迫的窒息感。
评分坦白讲，这本书的阅读体验是需要投入精力的，它不是那种可以让你一边刷手机一边轻松读完的休闲读物。它的文字密度非常高，充满了大量独创的术语和背景设定，如果稍不留神，可能就会跟不上主角的思路，或者误解了某个派系之间的微妙关系。我花了很长时间才适应那种迷宫般的叙事结构，作者似乎故意打乱了时间线，让过去的回忆、当下的困境和对未来的模糊憧憬交织在一起，形成一种令人眩晕的阅读体验。最让我印象深刻的是对“记忆载体”那一段的描写，书中构建了一种将集体记忆存储在特定有机物中的方式，这个设定既充满科幻色彩，又带着一种古老的宗教仪式感。我一直在思考，当历史不再由文字记录，而是依赖于某种易腐的、需要特定仪式才能激活的媒介时，真相该如何被维护？这种对知识和历史传承的探讨，让这本书的格局瞬间拔高了。与其说这是一部小说，不如说它是一部关于“信息权力”的寓言。而且，作者的语言风格非常冷静，即便描写最血腥的冲突或最绝望的场景，他的笔触依然保持着一种近乎人类学家的客观性，这种疏离感反而加剧了故事本身的残酷性。
评分说实话，这本书的文学性非常强，很多句子本身就具有可以摘录出来的美感，但这种美感是带着刺的，是那种被磨损的、残破的美。作者的叙事视角非常跳跃，一会儿是宏观的俯瞰，描绘整个地下网络的运作机制，一会儿又瞬间聚焦到某一个边缘人物的内心独白，这种强烈的对比，制造出一种史诗般的沧桑感。我尤其欣赏作者对“时间”这个概念的处理。在那个封闭的世界里，他们似乎失去了对外部时间的感知，他们的历史被切割成无数个“周期”和“世代”，每一个世代都带着前一世代的沉重遗产却又对真相一无所知。这种循环往复的宿命感，让读者产生一种深深的无力感。这不是一本提供解决方案的书，它更像是一面镜子，反射出人类社会在面对系统性崩溃时，那些既高贵又卑劣的本能反应。我读完后，久久无法从那种沉浸的氛围中抽离出来，它迫使我思考，我们所依赖的“上层世界”的稳固性，究竟有多么脆弱。这本书绝对是那种会留在你脑海里很久，让你时不时想起某个特定场景，然后陷入沉思的作品。
评分说实话，刚开始看的时候，我差点因为它的晦涩而放弃。我得承认，这本书的门槛有点高，它不迎合大众口味，它要求你像一个考古学家一样，小心翼翼地剥开层层叠叠的文字，才能发现下面的结构。但一旦你适应了它的节奏，那种深入探索的乐趣是无与伦比的。我特别喜欢作者对于不同社群之间冲突的描绘，这些冲突不是简单的善恶对立，而是基于生存哲学的根本分歧。比如，书中有一群坚信“彻底遗忘才能真正重生”的群体，他们甚至主动销毁旧有的文化符号，而另一派则视之为亵渎，拼死保护那些残存的碎片。这种内在的撕裂和张力，让整个地下世界充满了无法调和的矛盾。阅读过程中，我不断地被提醒，所谓的“地下”并非铁板一块，它内部的派系斗争和意识形态的差异，比他们共同对抗的“地表”势力还要复杂和难以预测。作者的精妙之处在于，他让你在同情某一方的同时，又看到了另一方逻辑上的合理性，让你陷入一种持续的道德困境。这是一本需要反复品味的“硬核”作品，不适合心浮气躁的读者。
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评分pretty interesting
评分My friend was not so confident in giving me this book to read, because they thought that this kind of book was forbidden in China.
评分一个"深入基层"的美国人写的中国游记
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