美哉中国

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前言

Before I left for the US in 1986, I lived in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou-three of China's biggest metropolises-and visited the terra-cotta army in Xi' an, and the karst mountains and Li River in Guilin.That was all I saw of China.Fast forward 16 years, I was back in China. I have had many opportunities to visit many more cities and provinces. It took a long absence and an outsider's perspective to appreciate what I did not know before or what I took for granted. This was a country I thought I knew but never learned to embrace.The Chinese have a saying: Read ten thousand volumes and travel ten thousand miles. Having grown up in the latter half of the Cultural Revolution, I missed much of the reading, but I'm determined to make up for it with as much travel as possible. In a few short years, I have covered three quarters of the country's provinces, autonomous regions and central governmentled municipalities.Every place is a revelation.I' ve learned to leave behind any presumptions associated with a place. The biggest surprise has always been whenever I approach a location with a blank mind, ready to absorb the sights and sounds afresh and hear locals tell their stories.

内容概要

Raymond ZhouRaymond 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 California's 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.

书籍目录

Foreword by Zhu LingPrefacePart 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 Xu's feats of Clay　　Collecting scraps of history, one certificate at a time　　Suzhou: Paradise intact　Fujian Province　　Heavenly MountainPart 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 LhasaPart 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, it's all in the cardsPart 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 gloryAcknowledgmentsPhoto Credits

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《美哉中国》由五洲传播出版社出版。

作者简介

《美哉中国》要内容：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.

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