China Road

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出版者:Random House
作者:Rob Gifford
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页数:352
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出版时间:2007-5-29
价格:GBP 17.79
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781400064670
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  • 中国 
  • China 
  • 社会 
  • 中国研究 
  • RobGifford 
  • 中国见闻 
  • travel 
  • 旅游 
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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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引人入胜的行文,有趣而不同的视角,去年在网上听过他为NPR做的播报,现在才不经意间看到他这本书。拿到之后从晚饭一直读,读到第二天早上6点钟才读完-这就是所谓拿起来放不下的那种读物。 喜欢他的英式冷幽默,经常让人在沉重的阅读之间忍俊不禁。 只是对他在文中表现出的很...

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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...  

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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...  

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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...  

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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...  

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利用各种边角料时间读完这本书。何伟的外壳,欧博文的核心,行文铺排比两人差不少,唯一的优势大概就是较多学者气息,比如会引用Pye老师的著作等,从正文后的鸣谢名单中也能看到不少学者的名字。有关历史背景介绍的段落总是惊人的无趣,最后冗长的结论也不忍卒读,不过对中国的观察算是全面细致,议论起来也满怀真诚,还偶有灵光闪现,比较难得了。印象最深的是作者在华山之巅对月想起李白《月下独酌》那首诗的情形,这就好比中国人望见远处的孤灯而想起《了不起的盖茨比》中那盏绿灯一样了...

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Audio book version

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非常赞的一本书,二十年前的中国,从上海合肥河南宁夏新疆西藏,东部主要体现地方政权问题,西部主要是宗教民族问题,采访部分挺到位。书中多次提到了8九,河殇,对中国人的性格刻画倒是挺生动。个人觉得比country driving好很多,可惜作者在网上的信息不多.....

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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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作者从安利从业者身上看到了中国的希望我也是醉了。

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