作者：[美国]彼得·海斯勒
出版社：HarperPerennial
副标题：TwoYearsontheYangtze
出版年：2001-12-24
页数：416
定价：13.95美元
装帧：平装
ISBN：9780060953744
内容简介
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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, 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, Amazon.com
作者简介
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彼得·海斯勒(Peter Hessler)，中文名何伟，曾任《纽约客》驻北京记者，以及《国家地理》杂志等媒体的撰稿人。
他成长于美国密苏里州的哥伦比亚市，在普林斯顿主修英文和写作，并取得牛津大学英语文学硕士学位。海斯勒曾自助旅游欧洲三十国，毕业后更从布拉格出发，由水陆两路横越俄国、中国到泰国，跑完半个地球，也由此开启了他的旅游文学写作之路。
海斯勒散见于各大杂志的旅游文学作品，数度获得美国最佳旅游写作奖。他的中国纪实三部曲中，《江城》一经推出即获得“奇里雅玛环太平洋图书奖”，《甲骨文》则荣获《时代周刊》年度最佳亚洲图书等殊荣。海斯勒本人亦被《华尔街日报》赞为“关注现代中国的最具思想性的西方作家之一”。
评论 ······
11月用碎片时间听这本书，洗澡、化妆的时候听，不知不觉今天听完了。很难想见一个外国人在两年时间里能参透中国那么多人情世故。他写的小城极富人情味，笔下的每个人都呼着热腾腾的气。但时代、地域、意识形态上的差异又总像沉甸甸的石头压在胸口。特别特别喜欢这本书，接下来准备读中文版。
相当沉浸的一段阅读体验。和Ethan一起，他读中文版我读英文版。这本书就在我们半夜两点不睡觉聊有关中国的种种，听跳岛和the china talk采访何伟，看李一凡的《淹没》和把耳朵泡在万青新专辑中读完了，读到最后一页很伤感，仿佛自己也离开了涪陵。何伟真的是一个很温柔的人呀。
看了一半没看完，有机会还是看原版的好。
断断续续看了三个月，今后一定还会重读无数次。最喜欢作者对于自己在异质文化中生活的感受的敏锐捕捉，与其说这是一本好书，不如说是人生这门课上一份A+的成绩单
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