River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (豆瓣)

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又名: 江城：扬子江边的两年
作者: Peter Hessler

ISBN: 9780060953744
定价: $13.95
出版社: Perennial
装帧: Paperback
出版年: 24 December, 2001

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　　In 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China's Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local college. Along with fellow teacher Adam Meier, the two are the first foreigners to be in this part of the Sichuan province for 50 years. Expecting a calm couple of years, Hessler at first does not realize the social, ... (展开全部) 　　Amazon.com
　　In 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China's Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local college. Along with fellow teacher Adam Meier, the two are the first foreigners to be in this part of the Sichuan province for 50 years. Expecting a calm couple of years, Hessler at first does not realize the social, cultural, and personal implications of being thrust into a such radically different society. In River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Hessler tells of his experience with the citizens of Fuling, the political and historical climate, and the feel of the city itself.
　　
　　"Few passengers disembark at Fuling ... and so Fuling appears like a break in a dream--the quiet river, the cabins full of travelers drifting off to sleep, the lights of the city rising from the blackness of the Yangtze," says Hessler. A poor city by Chinese standards, the students at the college are mainly from small villages and are considered very lucky to be continuing their education. As an English teacher, Hessler is delighted with his students' fresh reactions to classic literature. One student says of Hamlet, "I don't admire him and I dislike him. I think he is too sensitive and conservative and selfish." Hessler marvels,
　　
　　 You couldn't have said something like that at Oxford. You couldn't simply say: I don't like Hamlet because I think he's a lousy person. Everything had to be more clever than that ... you had to dismantle it ... not just the play itself but everything that had ever been written about it.
　　
　　Over the course of two years, Hessler and Meier learn more they ever guessed about the lives, dreams, and expectations of the Fuling people.
　　
　　Hessler's writing is lovely. His observations are evocative, insightful, and often poignant--and just as often, funny. It's a pleasure to read of his (mis)adventures. Hessler returned to the U.S. with a new perspective on modern China and its people. After reading River Town, you'll have one, too. --Dana Van Nest --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.　　

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lukiano

《书城》有一期选译了Hessler给学生上莎士比亚的章节。流畅的翻译完全体现了原文的行云流水。作家的叙事感是相通的。读了本书和他在纽约客上发自中国的文章，Hessler的让我想到杨绛。时常他的文笔和《干校六记》一般潺潺如流。这样的叙述来自一个不同的视角用以观察我们熟视的生活，出来的是使人不用脑光用心也能享受的文字。......

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magicfish0303

终于看完了“River Town - Two Years on the Yangtze”。作者Peter Hessler曾先后在Princeton和Oxford攻读英语文学，1996年以Peace Corp志愿者身份来到四川涪陵一所示范大学“支教”，两年后返回美国Missouri老家完成了这本书。Peter现在是一名自......

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awesome book
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this book is awesome! it was reported that thousands of american tourists had been attracted to the college where the author teached before, trying to find ever......

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Medy

It is an experience of overwhelming reading. I squeezed all the spare time of last week on this book and the more I have done the slower I was processing. I enj......

2008-07-16