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这本书<<River Town>>的作者是,Peter Hessler,中文名何伟,美国密苏里人。毕业于普林斯顿和牛津,是《纽约客》的驻北京记者(他在《纽约客》上开辟的专栏名字就叫“中国通信”,尽管他现在已经隐居在美国的某座偏僻大山里.)
。他同时还为《大西洋月刊》(Atlantic Monthly),《国家地理》,《华尔街日报》和《华尔街日报亚洲版》撰文。2007年后离开北京.
1996年来中国当和平队(Peace Corps),在涪陵教了2年英文。这个Peace Corps相当于美国的形象工程,由美国政府出钱,资助美国的普通人到世界各国从事普通的职业,以此来输出美国的价值观。这是一种平等的互动,相比之下,其它西方国家更重视和中国进行政府间的交流,我觉得美国人的方式虽然从短期来看,不见得能带来可视的效益,但从长远来看应该是最有效的。
何伟根据涪陵教书的经历,写了一本《River Town》(中译《消失的江城》)。后来他移居北京,住在胡同里面,又写出了一本据说视角更广的书《Oracle Bones》(中译《甲骨》)。这本书我都还没看过,还有《读库》。
他用细腻生动的风格纪录下了他的任教和当地生活.
节抄几段如下:
1 关于棒棒军的:
Fuling is not an easy city. Old people rest on the staircases, panting.To carry anything up the hill is backbreaking work, and so the city is full of porters. They haul their loads on bamboo poles balanced across their shoulders,the same way freight was carried in the south of China in the 1800s, when the Eglish referred to such laborers as "coolies"- from the Chinese KULI, or "bitter strength". Here in Fuling, as in all of the eastern Sichuan river towns, the porters are called BANG BANG JUN- the Stick Stick Army. They have uniforms ( the simple blue clothes of the Chinese peasantry), and the weapons of their trade( bamboo poles and loops of cheap rope), and they tend to gather in packs, in companies, in battalions. To bargin with one stick stick soldier is to bargain with a regiment.Their jobs are difficult enough without cutthroat competition, and they look out for each other; there is no formal union but the informal bond of hard labor is much closer.During midday, when most people rest, the stick stick soliders can be seen along the midtown streets, sitting on their poles, smoking,chatting, playing cards. and in their leisure there is an air not so much of relaxation as of a lull in the battle................
Fuling is a city of legs- the gnarled calves of a stick stick soldier, the bowed legs of an old man, the willow-thin ankles of a XIAOJIE, a young woman. You watch your step when climbing the stairways; you keep your head down and look ar the legs of the person on front of you. It is possible, and very common, to spend a morning shopping in Fuling and never once look up the bulidings. The city is all steps and legs.
书里很多风趣的描写,大家如果感兴趣可以找来看看.
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