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Want to learn more about a country that will increasingly impact our lives for years to come? Ride along with Gifford as he travels from Shanghai to Kazakhstan on Chinas longest road. Youll think its the writer himself talking--so closely does Simon Vance approximate his age, British nationality, and dexterity with the Chinese language. He helps make you see the vibrant modernity of Shanghai and the beauty of the Gobi Desert, the pollution, cookie-cutter factories, and ubiquitous karaoke bars and enlivens conversations with construction workers, bus passengers, and population control personnel. At the end of this valuable listening experience, Gifford predicts Chinas chances of making it as a major power. J.B.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, AudioFile Best Audiobook of 2007 © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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National Public Radio China correspondent Gifford journeyed for six weeks on China's Mother Road, Route 312, from its beginning in Shanghai for nearly 3,000 miles to a tiny town in what used to be known as Turkestan. The route picks up the old Silk Road, which runs through the Gobi Desert to Central Asia to Persia and on to Europe. Along the way, Gifford meets entrepreneurs hoping to cash in on China's growing economy, citizens angry and frustrated with government corruption, older people alarmed at changes in Chinese culture and morality, and young people uncertain and excited about the future. Gifford profiles ordinary Chinese people coping with tumultuous change as development and commerce shrink a vast geography, bringing teeming cities and tiny towns into closer commercial and cultural proximity; the lure of wealth is changing the Chinese character and sense of shared experience, even if it was common poverty. Gifford notes an aggressive sense of competition in the man-eat-man atmosphere of a nation that is likely to be the next global superpower. Vanessa Bush
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發表於2024-05-15
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我覺得齊福德同學的這本書是一本很有意思的反應中國社會現實的社普類讀物,最大的亮點就是裏麵有很多中文詞匯及成語的英文翻譯。 單憑他在中國20年的經曆,就能想象他中文英文的功力之強。遠至孔孟老莊,近至魯迅老毛,對他們的經典語錄真是順手拈來,著實佩服。此書開頭的一...
評分與照片上相比,Rob Gifford留著大鬍子,看上去有些老,讓人疑心是他的哥哥來瞭。跟幾個月前貝淡寜(Daniel A. Bell)的號召力差不多,他昨晚在北京書蟲的見麵會吸引瞭眾多讀者,好些人是站著聽完的。作為美國NPR電颱的英國記者,Gifford不像貝淡寜那樣文弱的書生,聲音大,也更...
評分China Road: A Journey into the Future of the Rising Power It is a bit strange to find Rob Gifford’s China Road in the travel section of my local bookshop. Route 312, where the author traveled from end to end, is not exact your typical tourist route. Nor i...
評分I've been reading quite a lot of books on China, not simply because I love this country, but I've never had a unified opinion about China. My own attitude towards China has always been self-contradictory. This travelogue just echoes my confusion with lively...
評分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...
圖書標籤: 隨筆 社會 文化 中國
總體來說還是客觀的
評分總體來說還是客觀的
評分總體來說還是客觀的
評分總體來說還是客觀的
評分一個外國記者,沿著312國道從上海到新疆的一段曆程。感慨中國的遼闊地域,巨大的差異,曆史與現實,和對未來的隨想。
China Road 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載