透视中国（英文版）
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作者： 周黎明 著
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出版时间： 2008-6-1字数：版次： 1页数： 200印刷时间： 2008/06/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9787508513379包装： 平装编辑推荐
作者介绍：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 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.
内容简介
X-Ray: Examining the China Enigma is a collection of 99 columns Raymond Zhou wrote for China Daily in the past few years. It is one man's adventure into the murky world of mostly mundane changes - progress and frustration that make up the tableau of a country in breakneck growth.
Zhou shies away from the big issues that everyone is familiar with; instead, he focuses on controversies that cannot be explained away with broad black-and-white strokes. His keen insight, sometimes infused with biting humor,adds a multi-dimensional hue to what would otherwise be regular issues of the week.
What makes Zhou stand out is his unique perspective and his acute rationality. He refuses to join in crowd-pleasing choruses, and he does not take any preconceived stands. He appreciates complexity and encourages the reader to do the same.
Vast and sweeping changes are made up of many smaller ones - some expected, others more difficult to digest. By dissecting some of the befuddling happenings of the past few years,Zhou has put a personal mark on cracking the codes - cultural and otherwise - that run the emerging power that is China.
Barely a contemporary subject is spared in this collection of commentaries written by Raymond Zhou over the past three years. From the weighty to the frothy, Zhou charts the dramatic changes taking place in China by striving to be a voice of reason. With each topic - China's youth, culture and the arts, the Intemet,morality and spirituality, the economy, and East-West relations - Zhou projects the same message: keep an open mind and exercise moderation.
目录
Foreword by Zhu Ling
Chapter One: It's the Economy
1. Don't get carried away with GDP
2. Thou shalt not collude on pricing
3. Can you monopolize song selection？
4. Pork price swing can be minimized
5. Food safety officials must be on alert
6. Small things make up the big picture
7. Reverse brain drain a sign of the times
8. 'Urban village' an eyesore in growth
Chapter Two: It Takes All Kinds
9. Names in stone mark much-deserved appreciation
10. Elevator ladies, checkout clerks and the human touch
11. Don't treat street vendors as the enemy
12. Schlepping for a little respect
13. Birth place no yardstick for place of death
14. News on the move
Chapter Three: Inside the Red Compound
15. Oath taken with a pinch of salt
16. Sadly, there is an Ah Q in all of us
17. Slap on the wrist not enough for lying officials
18. 'Shameful' exhibition backfires
19. Unconscious reflections of official mind
20. The 'rats' just keep nibbling
Chapter Four: Rebel without a Cause
21. Rebelliousness needs outlets
22. Youth facing dilemma of role models
23. Don't let gaokao seal your fate
24. If it's honest work, what else matters？
25. In a hugging league of one's own
26. Better teen body image with privacy
Chapter Five: In the Wild World of the Web
27. Bloggers' revolution is largely overrated
28. Let's stop lynching by public opinion
29. Cat killers could be given alternatives
30. Starbucks in the Forbidden City
31. Mr. Mayor, a netizen is calling
32. Netizen's arguments do not sit
43. Maid in China
44. Sex sells, but tastefulness still vital
45. Adult humor has its place among mature
46. Hong Kong sex scandal
Chapter Eight: Highbrow and Lowbrow
47. Arts events for national holidays
48. Grand National Theater. Can you afford it？
49. Best comedy knows how to tickle audience
50. Festival gala as tasteless as chicken ribs
51. Too much TV not a good thing
52. Don't parade entertainers as role models
53. Dabbling in real politics
54. Rocker's sad show a lesson to media hounds
Chapter Nine: Cherish Our Tradition, Sensibly
55. Appreciate Guoxue as it is
56. Kneeling is a thing of the past
57. Kowtowing not best show of gratitude
58. Is the dragon too fearsome a symbol for China？
59. Be sincere in preservation of cultural artifacts
60. No need to standardize a saint's look
61. A memorial service, outsourced
62. Yes, Spring Festival is truly golden
63. Chunyun provides a glimpse of China's reality
Chapter Ten: Language Matters
64. Hyperbole in advertising
65. Hyperbole in advertising: redux
66. Platitude overload depreciates language
67. Cutting out the waffle in speeches
68. Taking pride in our accents
69. Variety in name not a bad thing
70. Those addresses, they keep changing
71. A learning fad that's truly crazy
72. Make English learning less agonizing
Chapter Eleven: When East and West interact
Chapter Thirteen: In the Mood for Humor
Afterword
Acknowledgments
