Foreword by Zhu Ling
Preface
Part One: Close to Home
Beijing Municipality
Looking at the GreaWllfrm up high -- very hi
Guangdong Province
Out of Guangzhou, Africa trade booms
Zhejiang Province
Hollywood in central Zhejiang？ Give it a break！
Jiangsu Province
Yixing: Pour to rich
Master Xus feats of Clay
Collecting scraps of history, one certificate at a time
Suzhou: Paradise intact
Fujian Province
Heavenly Mountain
Part Two: Remote Places
Gansu Province
Surprise, the Yellow River is blue
Droughts root of poverty in Dongxiang
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
Letters from Xinjiang
Turpan: Where all paths crossed
inghai Province
Letters from inghai
Tibet Autonomous Region
Dawa Dondop: Local son also rises
Letters from Lhasa
Part Three: Beautiful Mountains and Beautiful Waters
Yunnan Province
Monkey business
Double exposures reveal clearer picture
Guizhou Province
Emerald a possible heritage site
Emerald masterpieces
Sichuan Province
Letters from Chengdu
Chongqing Municipality
Celluloid Chongging
In Chongqing, its all in the cards
Part Four: Rising from the Ashes
Hunan Province
The sleepy town of Phoenix
Hunan television: The one to watch
Milk of love is magic potion for children in need
Liaoning Province
Rebirth of the rust belt
Then and now: Sea change in landscape
Hebei Province
30 years on, memories of Tangshan quake still shake them...
Rescuers tell stories of a shattered city
Henan Province
Henan stigma highlights regional bias
Tudging down a blessed coal mine
Justice, Bao style, dispensed with a smile
A French apprentice at Shaolin Temple
Henan Museum: An archeological paradise
Eo stern Zhengzhou: a glimpse into the future
Back to the future for revival of past glory
Acknowledgments
Photo Credits
China the Beautiful is Raymond Zhous paean to his motherland， written after returning home following a long absence， which provided him with new perspectives and new opportunities to travel to places he had previously only read about. It is anything but a guidebook for roughly half of the countrys provinces， autonomous regions and municipalities. Zhou takes a mutceted approach to each place he writes about. His real interest is always in ordinary people - their joys， concerns and anxieties， the breath-taking beauty of the sceneries， and the quandaries between economic growth and ecological preservation. The book is a kaleidoscopic view of a country on the cusp of change - a country always yearning for something new， yet constantly reminded of ispstglry; a country caut etween the need for improving living standards for all and the hard decisions of whahst be given up in the process;a country where everything is happening so fast its a blur and capturing it with words and images amount to sculpting in time. Besides portraying everyday lives on the ground and up close， Zhou makes one exception by examining the GreaWllfrm an international space station. With the help of an astronaut， he busted，once and for all， the urban myth about the Wall as the only man-made structure visible from outer space. The book is a kaleidoscopic view of a country on the cusp of change - a country always yearning for something new， yet constantly reminded of ispstglry; a country caut etween the need for improving living standards for all and the hard decisions of whahst be given up in the process;a country where everything is happening so fast its a blur and capturing it with words and images amount to sculpting in time. Besides portraying everyday lives on the ground and up close， Zhou makes one exception by examining the GreaWllfrm an international space station. With the help of an astronaut， he busted，once and for all， the urban myth about the Wall as the only man-made structure visible from outer space.
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 o anuages 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 Californias Silicon Valley in the early days of the Internet boom. His focus has shifte fo high tech and e-commerce, to business, movies, arts and culture in general, an fo social issues to travel and humor. He began to blur the lines of some of these areas in recent years.
非常抱歉，您前期未参加预订活动，
无法支付尾款哦！
