目录 Foreword by Zhu Ling Preface Part One: Close to Home Beijing Municipality Looking at the Great Wall from up high -- very high Wannabe extras dream of stardom Guangdong Province Out of Guangzhou, Africa trade booms Zhejiang Province Hollywood in central Zhejiang? Give it a break! Jiangsu Province Yixing: Pour to rich Master Xus feats of Clay Collecting scraps of history, one certificate at a time Suzhou: Paradise intact Fujian Province Heavenly Mountain Part Two: Remote Places Gansu Province Surprise, the Yellow River is blue Droughts root of poverty in Dongxiang Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Letters from Xinjiang Turpan: Where all paths crossed Qinghai Province Letters from Qinghai Tibet Autonomous Region Dawa Dondop: Local son also rises Letters from Lhasa Part Three: Beautiful Mountains and Beautiful Waters Yunnan Province Monkey business Double exposures reveal clearer picture Guizhou Province Emerald a possible heritage site Emerald masterpieces Sichuan Province Letters from Chengdu Chongqing Municipality Celluloid Chongging In Chongqing, its all in the cards Part Four: Rising from the Ashes Hunan Province The sleepy town of Phoenix Hunan television: The one to watch Milk of love is magic potion for children in need Liaoning Province Rebirth of the rust belt Then and now: Sea change in landscape Hebei Province 30 years on, memories of Tangshan quake still shake them... Rescuers tell stories of a shattered city Henan Province Henan stigma highlights regional bias Tudging down a blessed coal mine Justice, Bao style, dispensed with a smile A French apprentice at Shaolin Temple Henan Museum: An archeological paradise Eo stern Zhengzhou: a glimpse into the future Back to the future for revival of past glory Acknowledgments Photo Credits
内容摘要 China the Beautiful is Raymond Zhou's paean to his motherland, written after returning home following a long absence, which provided him with new perspectives and new opportunities to travel to places he had previously only read about. It is anything but a guidebook for roughly half of the country's provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. Zhou takes a multifaceted approach to each place he writes about. His real interest is always in ordinary people - their joys, concerns and anxieties, the breath-taking beauty of the sceneries, and the quandaries between economic growth and ecological preservation. The book is a kaleidoscopic view of a country on the cusp of change - a country always yearning for something new, yet constantly reminded of its past glory; a country caught between the need for improving living standards for all and the hard decisions of what has to be given up in the process;a country where everything is happening so fast it's a blur and capturing it with words and images amount to sculpting in time. Besides portraying everyday lives on the ground and up close, Zhou makes one exception by examining the Great Wall from an international space station. With the help of an astronaut, he busted,once and for all, the urban myth about the Wall as the only man-made structure visible from outer space. The book is a kaleidoscopic view of a country on the cusp of change - a country always yearning for something new, yet constantly reminded of its past glory; a country caught between the need for improving living standards for all and the hard decisions of what has to be given up in the process;a country where everything is happening so fast it's a blur and capturing it with words and images amount to sculpting in time. Besides portraying everyday lives on the ground and up close, Zhou makes one exception by examining the Great Wall from an international space station. With the help of an astronaut, he busted,once and for all, the urban myth about the Wall as the only man-made structure visible from outer space.
主编推荐 Raymond Zhou Raymond Zhou is a writer who is hard to define or categorize: He is prolific in English and Chinese; his topics and interests cover many areas,from culture to socia! issues; he is comfortable with all media platforms,including print, online and television, or government-oriented, market-driven and grassroots; and he explores many genres, from journalistic reporting to commentary essays, to genre-busting experiments in fusing fiction and nonfiction. Above all, Zhou is praised for his ability to cross the boundaries of languages and cultures. Immersed in both Chinese and Western (specially American) cultures, he often deciphers a Chinese controversy from a Western perspective and vice versa. The ease with which he shifts his viewpoint endows him with a rare openness and independence of thinking. Zhou started writing in Californias Silicon Valley in the early days of the Internet boom. His focus has shifted from high tech and e-commerce, to business, movies, arts and culture in general, and from social issues to travel and humor. He began to blur the lines of some of these areas in recent years.
精彩内容 China the Beautiful is Raymond Zhous paean to his motherland, written after returning home following a long absence, which provided him with new perspectives and new opportunities to travel to places he had previously only read about. It is anything but a guidebook for roughly half of the countrys provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. Zhou takes a multifaceted approach to each place he writes about. His real interest is always in ordinary people - their joys, concerns and anxieties, the breath-taking beauty of the sceneries, and the quandaries between economic growth and ecological preservation. The book is a kaleidoscopic view of a country on the cusp of change - a country always yearning for something new, yet constantly reminded of its past glory; a country caught between the need for improving living standards for all and the hard decisions of what has to be given up in the process;a country where everything is happening so fast its a blur and capturing it with words and images amount to sculpting in time. Besides portraying everyday lives on the ground and up close, Zhou makes one exception by examining the Great Wall from an international space station. With the help of an astronaut, he busted,once and for all, the urban myth about the Wall as the only man-made structure visible from outer space. The book is a kaleidoscopic view of a country on the cusp of change - a country always yearning for something new, yet constantly reminded of its past glory; a country caught between the need for improving living standards for all and the hard decisions of what has to be given up in the process;a country where everything is happening so fast its a blur and capturing it with words and images amount to sculpting in time. Besides portraying everyday lives on the ground and up close, Zhou makes one exception by examining the Great Wall from an international space station. With the help of an astronaut, he busted,once and for all, the urban myth about the Wall as the only man-made structure visible from outer space.
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