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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与照片上相比,Rob Gifford留着大胡子,看上去有些老,让人疑心是他的哥哥来了。跟几个月前贝淡宁(Daniel A. Bell)的号召力差不多,他昨晚在北京书虫的见面会吸引了众多读者,好些人是站着听完的。作为美国NPR电台的英国记者,Gifford不像贝淡宁那样文弱的书生,声音大,也更...  

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我觉得齐福德同学的这本书是一本很有意思的反应中国社会现实的社普类读物,最大的亮点就是里面有很多中文词汇及成语的英文翻译。 单凭他在中国20年的经历,就能想象他中文英文的功力之强。远至孔孟老庄,近至鲁迅老毛,对他们的经典语录真是顺手拈来,着实佩服。此书开头的一...  

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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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与照片上相比,Rob Gifford留着大胡子,看上去有些老,让人疑心是他的哥哥来了。跟几个月前贝淡宁(Daniel A. Bell)的号召力差不多,他昨晚在北京书虫的见面会吸引了众多读者,好些人是站着听完的。作为美国NPR电台的英国记者,Gifford不像贝淡宁那样文弱的书生,声音大,也更...  

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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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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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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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还行,给外国人还看比较合适,我觉得nothing much new.

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Audio book version

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