The Road to Sleeping Dragon

Michael Meyer first went to China in 1995 with the Peace Corps. The winner of a Lowell Thomas Award for travel writing, Meyer has also won a Whiting Writers' Award for nonfiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His stories have appeared in the New York Times, Time, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Slate, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. He is the author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, which became a bestseller in China, and he divides his time between Pittsburgh and Singapore.

出版者:Bloomsbury USA

作者:Michael Meyer

页数:320

出版时间:2017-10-10

价格:USD 28.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781632869357

图书标签:梅英东当代中国历史非虚构纪实文学社会学小说中国

From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in a country in transition.

In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan. Knowing nothing about China, or even how to use chopsticks, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conversations, and, per a Communist dean's orders, jumped into teaching his students about the Enlightenment, the stock market, and Beatles lyrics. Soon he realized his Chinese counterparts were just as bewildered by China's changes as he was.

Thus began an impassioned immersion into Chinese life. With humor and insight, Meyer puts readers in his novice shoes, winding across the length and breadth of his adopted country --from a terrifying bus attack on arrival, to remote Xinjiang and Tibet, into Beijing's backstreets and his future wife's Manchurian family, and headlong into efforts to protect China's vanishing heritage at places like "Sleeping Dragon," the world's largest panda preserve.

In the last book of his China trilogy, Meyer tells a story both deeply personal and universal, as he gains greater – if never complete – assurance, capturing what it feels like to learn a language, culture and history from the ground up. Both funny and relatable, The Road to Sleeping Dragon is essential reading for anyone interested in China's history, and how daily life plays out there today.

用户评价

其实没什么劲，就是他在中国这几年的流水账，他书里提到的事儿我都知道，感觉是用来骗钱的。自打《再会，老北京》后，《东北游记》还可看，到这本最差。

非常personal的回忆录，acknowledgement里惊现Bob Tansey的名字，世界实在是小

其实没什么劲，就是他在中国这几年的流水账，他书里提到的事儿我都知道，感觉是用来骗钱的。自打《再会，老北京》后，《东北游记》还可看，到这本最差。

看完第七章我只能弃看了，实在看不下去了，太浮了，流水账.

非常personal的回忆录，acknowledgement里惊现Bob Tansey的名字，世界实在是小