River Town

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Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as the Beijing correspondent from 2000 to 2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town, which won the Kiriyama Prize; Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and, most recently, Country Driving. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting, and he was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. He lives in Cairo.

Biography

Peter Hessler, one of four children, was born in 1969, in Pittsburgh, but moved shortly thereafter to Columbia, Missouri. His father is a recently retired professor of sociology at the University of Missouri, and his mother teaches history at Columbia College.

Hessler attended Princeton University, where he majored in English and Creative Writing. The summer before graduation, he worked as a researcher for the Kellogg Foundation in southeastern Missouri, where he wrote a long ethnography about a small town called Sikeston. This became his first significant publication, appearing in the Journal for Applied Anthropology.

In 1992, Hessler entered Oxford University, where he studied English Language and Literature at Mansfield College. After graduating in 1994, he traveled for six month in Europe and Asia. One of the highlights of that trip was taking the trans-Siberian train from Moscow to Beijing. That journey resulted in his first published travel story, an essay that appeared in The New York Times in 1995. And that journey was his first introduction to China.

He spent the following year freelancing and attempting to write a book about his travels. Although the book didn't work out, he was able to publish travel stories in a range of newspapers, including The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, and The Newark Star-Ledger, among others. In 1995, he received the Stratton Fellowship, a grant from the Friends of Switzerland and spent two months hiking 650 miles across the Alps. Afterwards he continued to freelance, writing travel stories for American newspapers while teaching freshman composition at the University of Missouri. He also organized volunteer projects for students on campus.

In 1996 he joined the Peace Corps and was sent to China. For two years, he taught English at a small college in Fuling, a city on the Yangtze River. While living in Fuling, he studied Mandarin Chinese and became proficient in the language.

After completing his Peace Corps service in 1998, he traveled to Tibet, where he researched a long article, "Tibet Through Chinese Eyes," which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in February of 1999. Following that trip, he returned to Missouri and wrote River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. While working on the book, he continued to write travel stories for The New York Times and other newspapers. In March of 1999, Hessler decided to return to China independently and try to establish himself as a freelance writer.

Over the following years, he traveled widely in China and freelanced for a variety of publications. For a brief spell, he was accredited as the Boston Globe stringer in Beijing. In 2000, The New Yorker began publishing some of his stories; the following year, he became the first New Yorker correspondent to be accredited as a full-time resident correspondent in the People's Republic.

In 2000, Hessler also started researching stories for National Geographic Magazine. The first assignment was a story about Xi'an archaeology, which sparked his interest in researching antiquities. Subsequently he accepted an assignment for a story about China's bronze-age cultures, which led to his interest of the oracle bones of the Anyang excavations.

River Town was published in 2001. It won the Kiriyama Prize for outstanding nonfiction book about the Pacific Rim and South Asia. It was also a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover award, and in the United Kingdom it was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. The book has been translated into Korean, Thai, and Hungarian. The Hungarian translation won the Elle Literary Prize for nonfiction in 2004.

Peter Hessler's magazine stories have been selected for the Best American Travel Writing anthologies of 2001, 2004 and 2005, and also for the Best American Sports Writing anthology of 2004. "Chasing the Wall," a National Geographic story published in 2003, was nominated for a National Magazine Award.

Hessler first conceived of Oracle Bones at the end of 2001 and spent the next four years researching and writing the book.

He currently lives in Beijing.

Author biography courtesy of HarperCollins.

Good To Know

"The only steady job I ever held in journalism was delivering the Columbia Missourian," Hessler revealed in our interview. "I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was sixteen years old. Mary Racine, who taught sophomore English at Hickman High School, first encouraged me to take writing seriously. Mary Ann Gates taught juniors and Khaki Westerfield taught seniors; they were all remarkable teachers It makes a big difference to be encouraged at such an early stage."

出版者:Harper Perennial
作者:Peter Hessler
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頁數:399
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出版時間:2006-5-1
價格:USD 15.99
裝幀:Paperback
isbn號碼:9780060855024
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A New York Times Notable Book

Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize

In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the complex processes of understanding that take place when one is immersed in a radically different society.

Poignant, thoughtful, funny, and enormously compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be.

Third-place winner of Barnes & Noble's 2001 Discover Great New Writers Award for Nonfiction

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讀後感

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写这篇读后感真不容易,第一次没有设邮箱且直接在豆瓣线上写完点击发送后直接审核不通过的感觉是崩溃的。何伟的几本书为什么出版会有问题,为什么港台版本不同我能够理解了。 切入正题,这本书非常推荐阅读,我以前看的时候就翻了好几遍,何伟虽然不是什么伟大的作家,但是他写...  

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彼得•海斯勒(中文名何伟,1969-)很早就有成为作家的梦想。他先在普林斯顿大学修文学,1992年获得罗德奖学金后赴英国牛津大学深造。1996年他作为“和平队”( The Peace Corps)队员到中国涪陵支教。这次支教还有两个更实际的目的:第一是体验生活,让写作才华在一个陌生...  

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尽管一开始就知道这本书不是死板的社会学研究或自以为是的个人游记,但还是没想到会这么好,好到在我整个看的过程中,心始终是沉着的。心沉不沉,几乎成了我判别东西好坏的唯一标准了。比如随便刷一下微信朋友圈,你都能找到一千篇胡扯中国社会的文章,一般都无需看内容,标题...  

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《江城》中,何伟写到的最后一场冲突发生在他离开涪陵之前。他和同事亚当想拍一些片子,作为他们曾经在这个小城生活过见证。他们想拍下一切关于涪陵的记忆,他们走过的街道,生活过的校园,交往的学生,结交的朋友,还有那些依然生活在这里的普通人。何伟原本以为,普通人很难...  

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他在具有虔诚信仰的家庭中长大,他具有虔诚的信仰。他在大学里学文学,他痛恨文学被可怕的教育体制和文学评论撕裂和肢解,失去了原来的优美。 他的梦想,是成为一个作家,但是在此之前,他想看看遥远的国度,也想为了他的信仰做一些工作。于是他选择作为一个志愿者,登上了去...  

用戶評價

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讀到一半就激動地給夥伴們推薦瞭一圈。經常讀得笑齣聲來,或者陷入反思。透過外國人好奇和驚訝的眼睛,我們熟視無睹的人和事都呈現齣新鮮的模樣。以前讀的《尋路中國》原來也是何偉寫的,這次看原文更過癮。不疾不徐甚至不厭其煩的敘述讓人對江城有瞭詩意的遐想,但網上一查,今天的涪陵淪為瞭一座毫無特色的中國式城市。還好,何偉的文字留下瞭一張珍貴的老城底片。

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經理去年推薦瞭這本書給我看,我很後悔遲瞭一年纔看。1996年我讀小學,我在四川但我對其一無所知,過瞭十幾年覺得知道一點的時候,生活的社會變瞭許多,所以實際上還是一無所知。他是外國人,他沒有身在此山中,我讀到的是一雙異國眼裏的自己國傢,新鮮,震驚,卻仍然無法評價,可說的是作品記錄真實,行文誠懇,感情樸實,反正在當下我們已經沒辦法客觀去看這個國傢瞭。

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終於零零散散地看完。要說我最愛甲骨文的思想撞擊,那麼river town就像它的名字一樣,感性卻充滿力量。我覺得何偉最瞭不起的地方就是他能夠同時用那麼多雙不同的眼睛看世界:人類學傢的觀察,社會學傢的反思,記者的紀實和文學傢的情懷,他把這些東西就這麼都揉在一起,然後寫瞭一個本是極度私人化,卻具有瞭最廣泛意義和代錶性的紀實故事。

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如果不是因為他吐槽文學批評我就給他五星瞭……

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看的是"討厭權力"翻譯的網絡譯本(http://ishare.iask.sina.com.cn/f/14295486.html?from=like)。本書的大陸公開發行版(上海譯文):http://book.douban.com/subject/7060185/ 何偉中國三部麯的寫作順序是《江城》-《甲骨文》-《尋路中國》。

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