彼得·海斯勒(Peter Hessler),中文名何偉,曾任《紐約客》駐北京記者,以及《國傢地理》雜誌等媒體的撰稿人。
他成長於美國密蘇裏州的哥倫比亞市,在普林斯頓主修英文和寫作,並取得牛津大學英語文學碩士學位。海斯勒曾自助旅遊歐洲三十國,畢業後更從布拉格齣發,由水陸兩路橫越俄國、中國到泰國,跑完半個地球,也由此開啓瞭他的旅遊文學寫作之路。
海斯勒散見於各大雜誌的旅遊文學作品,數度獲得美國最佳旅遊寫作奬。他的中國紀實三部麯中,《江城》一經推齣即獲得“奇裏雅瑪環太平洋圖書奬”,《甲骨文》則榮獲《時代周刊》年度最佳亞洲圖書等殊榮。海斯勒本人亦被《華爾街日報》贊為“關注現代中國的最具思想性的西方作傢之一”。
From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker , acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China. Hessler writes movingly of the average people—farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneurs—who have reshaped the nation during one of the most critical periods in its modern history. Country Driving begins with Hessler's 7,000-mile trip across northern China, following the Great Wall, from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau. He investigates a historically important rural region being abandoned, as young people migrate to jobs in the southeast. Next Hessler spends six years in Sancha, a small farming village in the mountains north of Beijing, which changes dramatically after the local road is paved and the capital's auto boom brings new tourism. Finally, he turns his attention to urban China, researching development over a period of more than two years in Lishui, a small southeastern city where officials hope that a new government-built expressway will transform a farm region into a major industrial center. Peter Hessler, whom The Wall Street Journal calls "one of the Western world's most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against foreigners, is now building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world.
發表於2024-11-22
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這個中文名叫何偉的美國人,把中國人習以為常的場景,講述得像一幕幕喜劇,和,悲劇!你會看到基層政權的政治鬥爭(看瞭這個故事你會明白這個國傢的政治鬥爭是咋迴事),農民工的光榮與夢想,官僚階層貪腐小手段。以及,一個曾經活潑靈動的中國小孩是怎樣被培養成你我現在的樣...
評分很遺憾這本書和許多外國人看待中國的方式一樣,試圖用自己固有的思維解釋一切。 就像友鄰在另一篇書評裏所說的 “他不是在感受中國的美麗或者落後給他帶來的中肯的見解,也不是為瞭旅行而在旅行,他是在尋找,尋找他早已就認定的世界觀,並且用來解釋他這樣的優越感帶...
評分原帖地址http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_48b0d37b01017gcn.html 1 我剛做記者的時候,東方時空的製片人時間說過一句話,去現場采訪的時候“要象外國人一樣去看”。 他的意思是不要熟視無暏。 我以為自己聽進去瞭,看一個美國人寫的中國,纔知道我對現實已經失去多少感覺。...
評分試想這樣一個地方,這兒幾乎所有的司機都是新手。不僅如此,所有的路都是新的,通常都修處於未完工狀態,而且在地圖上找不到它們,此外,公路上的交通規則並未統一,雜亂無章,且常為人忽略。在一些小鎮中,馬路邊立著的交警隻是玻璃縴維製作的仿真模型,而駕校的教練們自己也...
評分在這本《尋路中國》裏,海勒斯為我們呈現瞭一個看似熟知而其實可能從不曾仔細觀察過的中國。如果中國是一個寬闊的多麵的立體的存在,那麼,這次,我們得以從一個全然不同的視角,隨海勒斯切入這個變動中的古老國度。海勒斯的有意思在於,這個我們熟悉的中國,在他筆下,漸漸的...
圖書標籤: PeterHessler 遊記 當代中國 中國 外國人看中國 何偉 社會 旅行
More and more on China, in fragments, less and less about Hessler, the eyes, the man, the observer. They said, "the fact-collecting Eagle scout".
評分太好玩瞭!作者寫人寫得真好,還把每一個人的名字都寫齣來,真的很在意受訪者(不過這沒問題麼?),不過我還是很好奇他怎麼能和這些人聊得如此深入啊。用另一個視角比如把錢都換成美元看事情非常不一樣。非常非常推薦。
評分多年之後重新精讀原版,發現很多細節,簡直覺得自己以前沒看過這本書。我更偏愛前兩部分寫長城和三岔村,小人物有血有肉,希望我有朝一日也能寫到這樣。第三部分寫的有點散落,而且感情比較淡,不過也正好貼閤瞭這部分的主題。唯一的缺點是很多時候為瞭結構上的需要,故意製造迴味的開放性段落結尾有點運用過度。
評分這是我第一本從頭至尾看完的英文書,真慚愧。
評分Done in fits and starts>.< Stunned again by Peter's intensive observation and his perspective of being an viewer. His description really amazed me. Owing to his skilled elaboration, even the trifles seem no longer meaningless to me. I do think, what Peter does is the wildest dream of a journalist.
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