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题材很特别,是根据作者离开中国前沿着312国道从上海到新疆一路经历所写成的。里面很多的社会现实对我来说并不感到新奇,但是仍有很多作者的讨论和观点很深刻,能给人启发。对于第一次读这类外国人写的中国读物的人来说,的确是“从一个外国人眼里,又重新了解了一次自己的祖国”。
评分最尼玛烦这种带有明显优越感的写作风格了。和何伟比起来,Rob还仅仅是个学生,差得远。作者明显的带有一种先入为主的道德判断,老外依旧无法读懂天朝的老毛病依旧存在。全书中记述很少,转述很多,然后被这种不知道正不正确的转述引发的所谓的独立思考来潜移默化凸显优越感。感想大篇而实际上老调重弹一点也没什么突破。Rob总是在以一种基于他们宗教情结下“白人至上”的典型保守主义心态来阅读中国。公正地说,和那些极度偏激的non-fiction相比,这部书还是保持了一种试图不左不右的立场,可惜的是作者自身的“保守主义”情节下,使得作者字里行间中充满道德标杆,因此他试图不偏不倚变成虚空。另外,全书中天朝特色词汇的英译值得学翻译的同学看看,除此之外,这只是一部写给外国人看并且迎合那些他们道德优越感的一本书而已。以上。
评分长期受雇于通讯社,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。
评分非常赞的一本书,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.....
评分Moderate tone and balanced opinions about China
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
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...
评分与照片上相比,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...
评分与照片上相比,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...
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...
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...
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