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Wayfinding China

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    My name is Peter Heisler, and I am the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker.  This book tells the story of my driving experience in mainland China.

    In the summer of 2001, I obtained a Chinese driver's license. In the following seven years, I drove around China's countryside and cities.  These seven years are also the period of rapid development of China's auto industry. In Beijing alone, more than a thousand newcomers apply for driver's licenses every day. For several years, the annual growth rate of passenger car sales exceeded 100%.  fifty.  In just over two years, the Chinese government has built more mileage of roads in rural areas than in the previous half century.

    There are several different threads in the book "Finding the Way in China".  It first narrates my journey from the coast of the East China Sea along the Great Wall all the way to the west, across northern China; the other clue focuses on a village that has undergone tremendous changes due to the rapid development of China's automobile industry. Here, I feature a close-up  The experience of a peasant family's transformation from agriculture to business; finally, the urban life scene of an industrial town in southeastern China.  The development described in the book, from agriculture to industry to commerce, and from countryside to city, is the most important change that has taken place in China since the reforms in 1978.

    "Looking for China" is the end of my trilogy of Chinese documentaries.  It explores the economy, traces the sources of development, and explores individual responses to change.  Like the previous two books, it studies central issues in China, but it does not do so by interpreting famous political or cultural figures, nor does it do macro and unwarranted analysis.  It believes in showing the essence of China's transformation by narrating the experiences of ordinary Chinese people.  I often stay in one place for months, or even years, tracking changes.  I don't just listen to the protagonists tell themselves, I keep my eyes open and watch their stories unfold in front of me.

    These three books span my ten years in China, from 1996 to 2007.  We can see that this turn-of-the-century decade was one of the most critical periods in Chinese history.  It was during this decade that China's economy took off and China's influence on the outside world began to increase.  What's more, this is the first decade since the death of Mr.  During this decade, the face of Chinese history began to change, and large-scale political events and powerful leaders began to retreat from it.  Instead, the agents of China's upheaval have been ordinary people—farmers moving to cities, entrepreneurs learning by doing, whose energy and determination have been the defining factors of the past decade.  From "River City" to "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" to "Looking for China", all I tell are their stories.

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    Originally, I planned to find some good-looking novels on Eleventh, but after opening this book, I filled up a lot of entities at once, and I didn't read much novels.  It's very strange, maybe it's been so long since I haven't read the kind of novels that are completely amazing and exciting, so that the hunger for online articles has slowly disappeared. I have collected too many novels to pass the time.  It's really hard to get interested in watching it.

    Back to "Looking for China".  I read the author's "Jiangcheng" before, it was about the 1980s, this one is mainly about the 2000s, but it's very strange, I read these two books, it seems that Jiangcheng is from the last century, and the wayfinding is from the last century  The illusion that China's speed is really too fast, so fast that when I recall my childhood, sometimes I can't believe that it has only been ten years.

    The first half of this book tells about his driving to the villages where the Great Wall used to be built, which are basically concentrated in the west and the area around Beijing.  , so I don’t think it’s as exciting as the previous book.

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    Author: Gray Potato

    The title and subtitle of "Looking for China" ("A Self-Driving Journey from the Countryside to the Factory") are very confusing. I bought it as a travel essay, brewed coffee, welcomed the sunshine into the house, and planned to enjoy it comfortably  I read it, but only turned two pages. When I saw the author He Wei copying out the motor vehicle driver theory test questions, I laughed excitedly and embarrassedly. I also memorized and passed the test when I took the driver's license test.  Most of the topics unbelievably embody the essence of sexism.  For example, a question mentioned in the book: If another driver stops to ask you for directions, you should: a) Not tell the other party.  b) Answer patiently and carefully.  c) point him down a wrong path.

    ?Continue reading, when He Wei summed up the various ways of honking of Chinese drivers as a neurological semantic system "responsible for transmitting the driver's instinctive response", I laughed out loud.

    This paragraph is written like this: a short "bi" sound is used to attract attention.  Two consecutive "bi-bi" to express anger.  If there is a particularly long "Bi———" sound, it means that the driver has encountered a traffic jam, and he has no room to escape, and he is wishing that all the people and cars on the road will disappear.  If there is a "Bi————————" sound response, it means that theyThe real reason for doing it.  One of the scariest of all is to forget that we are part of the wicked world that created it.

    It is necessary for us to reconsider the country we live in in the careful observation of "Looking for China".  It seemed for the first time that I knew that I was not walking in total darkness, but saw some hopeless textures and the possibility of being healed.  Perhaps the best state is that the clamorers continue to clamor, the angry ones continue to be angry, the rebels continue to resist, and the pathfinders continue to explore the way.  We need the sound of hustle and bustle, and every living person must continue to live in the quiet place in the middle of the hustle and bustle.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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