Alec Ash is a writer and journalist in Beijing.
He studied English literature at Oxford University. After graduating he taught in a Tibetan village in western China for a summer, before moving to Beijing in 2008.
His articles have been published in The Economist, Prospect, Dissent and Foreign Policy among others. He is a blogger for the Los Angeles Review of Books, a contributing author to the book of reportage Chinese Characters, and founder of the Anthill, a writers' colony of stories from China.
The youth are the generation that will change China. There are over 320 million in their teens and twenties, more than the population of the USA. Born after Mao, natives of a nation on the rise, they are destined to have an unprecedented influence on global affairs.
These millennials, offspring of the only child policy, face fierce competition and pressure to succeed. Dislocated from their country’s tumultuous past, they are caught between tradition and modernity. Their struggles are also the same as those of young people all over the world: moving out of home, starting a career, falling in love.
Wish Lanterns tells the stories of six young Chinese. Dahai is a military child and a rebel; ‘Fred’ is a daughter of the Party. Lucifer is an aspiring superstar; Snail a country migrant addicted to online gaming. Xiaoxiao is a hipster from the freezing north; and Mia a skinhead fashionista from Xinjiang in the far west.
發表於2024-11-05
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This book combines the stories of six Chinese, born across China in between 1985 to 1990, and follows them in their lives until 2015. At times, Ash's writing is incredibly sharp, but his style alternates as if the blend of six into one isn't a seamless one....
評分This book combines the stories of six Chinese, born across China in between 1985 to 1990, and follows them in their lives until 2015. At times, Ash's writing is incredibly sharp, but his style alternates as if the blend of six into one isn't a seamless one....
評分This book combines the stories of six Chinese, born across China in between 1985 to 1990, and follows them in their lives until 2015. At times, Ash's writing is incredibly sharp, but his style alternates as if the blend of six into one isn't a seamless one....
評分This book combines the stories of six Chinese, born across China in between 1985 to 1990, and follows them in their lives until 2015. At times, Ash's writing is incredibly sharp, but his style alternates as if the blend of six into one isn't a seamless one....
評分This book combines the stories of six Chinese, born across China in between 1985 to 1990, and follows them in their lives until 2015. At times, Ash's writing is incredibly sharp, but his style alternates as if the blend of six into one isn't a seamless one....
圖書標籤: non-fiction youth library-books china 2018閱讀
R4 read by David Seddon. 學翻譯 The rich/ Party 2nd generation; artistic youth. 故事都有點cliché瞭,近年來西方媒體的主流
評分被作者對當前中國的瞭解震驚到瞭,老外同事讀瞭說very very interesting,對中國人來說就是發生在身邊的人和事並沒有太多新東西
評分超級好看,超級真實,超級搞笑。作者對中國年輕人生活瞭解十分透徹,遠超乎我的意料。
評分R4 read by David Seddon. 學翻譯 The rich/ Party 2nd generation; artistic youth. 故事都有點cliché瞭,近年來西方媒體的主流
評分light 4/5 Although WL does not serve an exhaustive take on lives of post-80s/90s Chinese, if that is ever possible, by focusing mainly on six characters some of whom I find really unrelatable, it is an admirable achievement nonetheless. Both a curious introduction to Chinese culture(s) for foreigners and an elegy to lost youth for the rest of us.
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