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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
by Peter Hessler
《江城》何伟
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
by Peter Hessler
《行路中国：从乡村到工厂的自驾之旅》何伟
在中国四川省的中心地带，有一座小城涪陵。涪陵被长江流域的梯田丘陵环绕，远离北京和上海等繁华的政治中心，长期以来一直保持着连续性。但现在，涪陵正走向一条新的道路，逐渐与这个幅员辽阔、不断发展的国家中的数十个其他城镇一起，成为中国四川省中心的小城涪陵。涪陵被长江流域的梯田丘陵环绕，远离北京和上海等繁华的政治中心，长期以来一直保持着连续性。但现在，涪陵正走向一条新的道路，与这个幅员辽阔、不断发展的国家的其他数十个城镇一样，逐渐成为一个充满变化与活力、紧张与改革、混乱与发展的地方。涪陵人在坚守他们所熟悉的中国的同时，也在不断开放，努力适应这个命运未卜的世界。
1996 年，何伟（Peter Hessler）作为和平队志愿者来到涪陵，这标志着半个多世纪以来涪陵第一次有了美国居民。他发现自己在当地大学教授英美文学，发现莎士比亚和其他经典作品在四川农村长大并接受共产党理论教育的学生眼中是什么样子。不过，正是他的学生教会了他涪陵的风土人情，以及一个人在一个完全不同的社会里所经历的复杂的理解过程。随着语言的学习和对涪陵人民的了解，何伟开始意识到，现在的涪陵的确是一个独特的时刻。
未来是三峡大坝，建成后将淹没部分城市，迫使一百多万人重新定居。何伟在城市中穿行，乘船、坐火车走遍四川省内外，生动描述了他所遇到的人，从牧师到妓女，从农民到教授，并表达了他们的观点。这既是他在涪陵生活的亲身经历，也是对周围风景和历史的多彩而优美的描述。《江城》富有想象力、凄美、风趣，极具吸引力，是一幅令人难忘的城市肖像画，就像中国本身一样，这座城市正在寻求了解它的过去和未来。
In the heart of China’s Sichuan province lies the small city of Fuling. Surrounded by the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, Fuling has long been a place of continuity, far from the bustling political centers of Beijing and Shanghai. But now Fuling is heading down a new path, and gradually, along with scores of other towns in this vast and ever-evolving country, i In the heart of China’s Sichuan province lies the small city of Fuling. Surrounded by the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, Fuling has long been a place of continuity, far from the bustling political centers of Beijing and Shanghai. But now Fuling is heading down a new path, and gradually, along with scores of other towns in this vast and ever-evolving country, it is becoming a place of change and vitality, tension and reform, disruption and growth. As the people of Fuling hold on to the China they know, they are also opening up and struggling to adapt to a world in which their fate is uncertain. Fuling’s position at the crossroads came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1996, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. He found himself teaching English and American literature at the local college, discovering how Shakespeare and other classics look when seen through the eyes of students who have been raised in the Sichuan countryside and educated in Communist Party doctrine. His students, though, are the ones who taught him about the ways of Fuling — and about the complex process of understanding that takes place when one is immersed in a radically different society. As he learns the language and comes to know the people, Hessler begins to see that it is indeed a unique moment for Fuling. In its past is Communist China’s troubled history — the struggles of land reform, the decades of misguided economic policies, and the unthinkable damage of the Cultural Revolution — and in the future is the Three Gorges Dam, which upon completion will partly flood thecity and force the resettlement of more than a million people. Making his way in the city and traveling by boat and train throughout Sichuan province and beyond, Hessler offers vivid descriptions of the people he meets, from priests to prostitutes and peasants to professors, and gives voice to their views. This is both an intimate personal story of his life in Fuling and a colorful, beautifully written account of the surrounding landscape and its history. Imaginative, poignant, funny, and utterly compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that, much like China itself, is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be.
