迈克尔•麦尔 Michael Meyer
1995年作为美国“和平队”志愿者首次来到中国,在四川省一座小城市培训英语教师。1997年他搬到北京居住了十年,并在清华大学学习中文。他的文章多次在《纽约时报》《时代周刊》《金融时报》《华尔街日报》等诸多媒体上发表。迈克尔•麦尔曾获得多个写作奖项,其中包括古根海姆奖、纽约市公共图书馆奖、怀廷奖和洛克菲勒•白拉及尔奖。他毕业于加州大学伯克利分校,目前在美国匹兹堡大学和香港大学教授非虚构写作,其作品有《再会,老北京》《东北游记》等。
发表于2024-12-22
The Last Days of Old Beijing 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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Just in time for the Summer Olympics in Beijing, the Old City's narrow lanes and shops are being bulldozed and their residents displaced to make way for Wal-Marts, shopping centers and high-rise apartments. Part memoir, part history, part travelogue and part call to action, journalist Meyer's elegant first book yearns for old Beijing and mourns the loss of an older way of life. Having lived for two years in one of Beijing's oldest hutongs—mazes of lanes and courtyards bordered by single-story houses—Meyer chronicles the threat urban planning poses not only to the ancient history buried within these neighborhoods but also to the people of the hutong. The hutong, he says, builds community in a way that glistening glass and steel buildings cannot. His 81-year-old neighbor, whom he calls the Widow, had always been safe because neighbors watched out for her, as she watched out for others: the book opens with a delightful scene in which the Widow, a salty character who calls Meyer Little Plumblossom, brings him unsolicited dumplings for his breakfast. The ironies of the reconstruction of Beijing are clear in the building of Safe and Sound Boulevard, which, Meyer tells us, is neither.
两个月攻下了这本英文原版!
评分何伟的朋友,港大的老师。题材很好,看的时候很怀念北京。只是叙事上,还是不及何伟简练而直入深处。
评分有种堆砌资料的感觉
评分太好看了,好多来龙去脉和前世今生,好多“近在眼前”和“远在天边”(中文版据说删了不到一页的内容,不必在意。)啊!打开生活!胡同扑面而来
评分整体尚可,作者考据循证的精神和搜集调研的能力确实强。叙事的视角和逻辑,材料的组织等也都颇显功底。但立场维度还是很单薄,作者只重描述胡同拆迁给其中的人带来的变化,而没能从更广的城市规划的视角客观思考个中策略;也没有挖掘城市化更深层次的社会结构的动力。观点流于抱残守缺,几乎反对北京旧城范围内的一切住区拆除,试想今天的北京如果没有两广大街平安大街,交通状况简直不可想象。 本书也存在预设立场和刻意制造荒诞的情况,但比作者的另一本《东北游记》还是好一些。
The Last Days of Old Beijing 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书