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
这本书是一位住中国多年的英国记者Rob Gifford在离开中国前,根据他两次沿312国道从东向西横穿中国大陆的经历所写成的。心爱的姑娘介绍我看这本书时,说她从一个外国人的眼中,又重新了解了一次自己的祖国,感慨万千。看完这本书后我也有同感。 312国道东起上海,西止于中国哈...
评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...
评分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...
评分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...
评分Personally my deep love of this sentence makes it an intrinsic part of myself, and so does the author. But, still, I can not see the connection of this citation to the whole book. It is glued at the front and rear of the passage, but not being vivified. Ro...
长期受雇于通讯社,齐福德的文笔肯定没得说,同时也有英国人的幽默。书里记述的体验旅程,沿着312国道从东到西,穿越多个省份,不管自然气候、地形地貌,还是经济条件、民生状况,差别都挺大的,确实是个了解中国的办法,但这么大的国家,不管历史或现实,所牵涉的事物繁多复杂,真的不是三个月走马观花式的旅行就能看得清也说得清的。好多人赞美何伟,是因为何伟能看到普通人的无奈和无助,如果齐福德能像何伟扎根于某个三四五线小城镇,停留时间长点,多接触多观察,可能很多感悟就不一样了。同样是在英国旧书店淘到的书,除了纸张略有随时间沉淀的老旧痕迹,其他基本和新书无异,只要3.5镑。
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评分个人觉得齐福德被低估,他和何伟水平不相上下,只是后者更温和前者更尖刻——英国人绅士的一面死哪去啦?可惜俩人都不在中国了~
评分Moderate tone and balanced opinions about China
评分我觉得作者对于中国的民主进程比中国人自己还要操心。听到强制堕胎那里,作者站着说话不腰疼,这么多人口,不计划生育100年后我们中国人都去喝西北风么。这本书也不会有中文简体版的,书里赤裸裸地支持西藏和新疆独立。。。作者问藏人的话角度都很刁钻。不过关于贫富差距的地方还算说得比较中肯
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