China Road (豆瓣)

副标题: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
ISBN: 9781400064670
页数: 352 页
定价: USD 26.95
出版社: Random House
装帧: Hardcover
出版年: 2007

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　　Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down.
　　
　　In this utterly surprising an... (展开全部) 　　Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down.
　　
　　In this utterly surprising and deeply personal book, acclaimed National Public Radio reporter Rob Gifford, a fluent Mandarin speaker, takes the dramatic journey along Route 312 from its start in the boomtown of Shanghai to its end on the border with Kazakhstan. Gifford reveals the rich mosaic of modern Chinese life in all its contradictions, as he poses the crucial questions that all of us are asking about China: Will it really be the next global superpower? Is it as solid and as powerful as it looks from the outside? And who are the ordinary Chinese people, to whom the twenty-first century is supposed to belong?
　　
　　Gifford is not alone on his journey. The largest migration in human history is taking place along highways such as Route 312, as tens of millions of people leave their homes in search of work. He sees signs of the booming urban economy everywhere, but he also uncovers many of the country’s frailties, and some of the deep-seated problems that could derail China’s rise.
　　
　　The whole compelling adventure is told through the cast of colorful characters Gifford meets: garrulous talk-show hosts and ambitious yuppies, impoverished peasants and tragic prostitutes, cell-phone salesmen, AIDS patients, and Tibetan monks. He rides with members of a Shanghai jeep club, hitchhikes across the Gobi desert, and sings karaoke with migrant workers at truck stops along the way.
　　
　　As he recounts his travels along Route 312, Rob Gifford gives a face to what has historically, for Westerners, been a faceless country and breathes life into a nation that is so often reduced to economic statistics. Finally, he sounds a warning that all is not well in the Chinese heartlands, that serious problems lie ahead, and that the future of the West has become inextricably linked with the fate of 1.3 billion Chinese people.
　　
　　“Informative, delightful, and powerfully moving . . . Rob Gifford’s acute powers of observation, his sense of humor and adventure, and his determination to explore the wrenching dilemmas of China’s explosive development open readers’ eyes and reward their minds.”
　　 –Robert A. Kapp, president, U.S.-China Business Council, 1994-2004　　

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中国路，直路向前？
岑寂(让我彻底安静,好像社会离我已远)

美国全国公共广播电台（NPR）驻华记者Rob Gifford即将调离岗位，美国的编辑问他是否愿意去耶路撒冷做记者。他考虑许久后说，算了。那个时候，他已经预计到，在耶路撒冷报道巴以冲突将会是在一个循环反复的百年故事里打转。他告诉他的编辑，中国，相较之下，她的故事有一种线性的发展，一直通往一个没有人能够知道的某处。 ...... (24回应)

2009-02-10 63/63有用

有趣而不同的视角
Ray|锐(与有趣人，做无耻事)

引人入胜的行文，有趣而不同的视角，去年在网上听过他为NPR做的播报，现在才不经意间看到他这本书。拿到之后从晚饭一直读，读到第二天早上6点钟才读完-这就是所谓拿起来放不下的那种读物。喜欢他的英式冷幽默，经常让人在沉重的阅读之间忍俊不禁。只是对他在文中表现出的很多近乎偏执的敌意持保留态度。 ...... (4回应)

2009-01-03

中国之路的希望
许应许

与照片上相比，Rob Gifford留着大胡子，看上去有些老，让人疑心是他的哥哥来了。跟几个月前贝淡宁（Daniel A. Bell）的号召力差不多，他昨晚在北京书虫的见面会吸引了众多读者，好些人是站着听完的。作为美国NPR电台的英国记者，Gifford不像贝淡宁那样文弱的书生，声音大，也更好听。 Gifford...... (2回应)

2009-02-11

提到了river elegy
好运

匆匆地旅行很难对所见的东西有什么深入的理解。虽然作者自己也承认这一点，但是他又自觉不自觉地加入了很多的评论，有时与他的所见并不相关。比较有趣的是他在书中提到了river elegy也就是八九年那个运动之前，那个运动的策划者制作的一部宣传片，并在中央电视台播了两次。在片中宣告黄河文明已经死亡，生存之路要与大海文明相结合。......

2009-03-06

走的人多了，也便成了路
Medy

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......

2008-11-21

China Road: A Journey into the Future of the Ris...
newlight(taohuawu.net)

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. Ro......

2007-08-05

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