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File Size: 1019 KB
Print Length: 322 pages
Publisher: Vintage Digital; New Ed edition (February 29, 2012)
Publication Date: February 29, 2012
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B006MX752K
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ONE OF THE REVIEWERS DESCRIBED THIS AUTHOR AS A CLOSED MIND CONSERVATIVE ,THIS MADE ME TO PURCHASETHIS BOOK INMEDIATELYTHIS BOOK IS SET IN CHINA IN 1987, ELEVEN YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF MAO, WHO ALONGSIDE WITH STALIN ANDPOL POT STAND AS THE GREATEST MASS MURDERERS OF THE TWENTY CENTURY.THE AUTHOR GIVES A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE , EMERGING FROM THE MADNESSOF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION.I SPECIALLY LIKE THE CHAPTER ON CONFUCIUS,WHO HAS BEEN RIGHTLY RESTORED,WHILE MAO HAS BEEN THROWN IN THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY,ALONGSIDE ALL THE COMMUNIST GARBAGE.OTHER BOOKS BY COLIN THUBRON:1) SHADOW OF THE SILK ROAD2)TO A MOUNTAIN IN TIBET3) AMONG THE RUSSIANS4)THE LOST HEART OF ASIA5)IN SIBERIATHIS BOOK SEXTET MAKES AN EXCELLENT TRAVELOGUE COLLECTION THROUGH THE GREAT LANDMASS OF EURASIA,FROM THE FROZEN ARTIC IN NORTH SIBERIA TO THE TROPICAL FOREST IN SOUTH CHINA
This is now an old book, but it is still worth reading. Thubron travels third class, speaks Mandarin Chinese, and reports random conversations with locals that segue into illustrations of the Chinese history, philosophy, and 20th century concerns that Thubron knows so well. I have travelled in China and read several books about the country. This added to my knowledge, and yet it could be an introduction to this proud, sophisticated, influential, and very, very foreign country. It also can be read as pure escape. Escaping with Thubron is one of life's great pleasures.
Colin Thubron is one of th best ever english language travel writers. I have read all of his books and this is the last one that I have read. Having never been to China this book gave me some insights into the land and its people.Now I too want to travel in China and maybe learn some mandarin to make the trip more enjoyable.
I have a deep interest in China. I'm studying spoken Chinese, I read almost every book I can find about 20th Century China, I plan to visit within the next 5 years. But this author's writing is almost indecipherable to me.Here is just one example paragraph; nearly every page has one like it. (From page 73): "Where the Great Wall joined the city parapets, they erupted into a temple-crowned gateway blazoned 'The First Pass Under Heaven'. Once it guarded the battle-scarred road to Manchuria, and as I climbed it an angled outwork rose still formidable into view, and a half-emptied moat soggy with rice and cabbages. To the south the Wall lunged toward the sea through hovels where white-haired piglets scampered; here and there the villagers had burrowed their way clean through it, or stripped off its bricks three deep to expose a stupendous core of rubble. But to the north, after stumbling brokenly over the plain, the monster lifted bastion upon bastion into the hills, zigzagged along razor peaks and plunging declivities, scaled the furthest precipices in a megalomaniac sliver and disappeared into cloud-patterned mountains."I consider myself an educated person but I cannot make heads or tails of this description. He loses me with misplaced clauses and unnecessarily complicated words and I begin to wonder if I'm the problem, since 'The Times' ranked him 45th of the 50 greatest postwar British writers.If you understand and appreciate writing like the paragraph above, send me your address and you can have my book.
Stifling heat, numbing cold. Desolate nowhere-scapes and their abandoned, scarred inhabitants. Endless discomfort both physical and psychological. Abject Loss. It’s a good read, but… Depressing. -s.s.x.
Well done travelogue, Thubron is a wonderful story teller, and I have yet to be disappointed in my purchases of his travel tales. The history he gives us about his journeys is fascinating too.
Colin Thubron is one of the most prominent living travel authors and his journeys through Asia are justly praised by fans of the genre. He has a peculiar approach to travel writing, by generally going to one country only and then trying to visit as much of it as possible while talking to the maximum amount of people, unlike for example Paul Theroux, who generally writes about travel across many societies. In this book, "Behind the Wall", Thubron takes us on a tour of China, and then I really mean all of China (except Tibet and Manchuria), as it was when he visited it in 1987.The result is an interesting overview of Chinese society as it was just opening up to foreigners after the long periods of war and revolution. Thubron was by no means the first tourist to do a tour of China since 1949, but he did travel when European tourists were very rare and limited to expensive package deals and the corresponding upper class environment, be it by Chinese standards. He studiously avoids following in their footsteps, and instead tries to take the cheaper hostels, the lower class train carriages and so forth in order to get an impression of real Chinese society as the Chinese experienced it. The degree to which one can do this as a total outsider is still always limited of course, and as any anthropologist knows the very act of being an observant as a stranger can and will change people's behavior. Nonetheless, the rarity of a white foreigner in the places Thubron goes greatly aids him in conversing with a number of random Chinese he meets, and this leads to some interesting conversations and good insight into the diversity of the Chinese peoples as such, 'even' under Communism.Thubron has been particularly praised for his good descriptive writing with regard to places and landscapes, and this is fully borne out in the book. He manages to be almost poetic about many of the remarkable sites he visits without either sounding over the top or like a travel brochure, which is quite a feat. His somewhat cynical detachment from the actual society probably helps in that regard. Nonetheless, this can get quite irritating too. Even though the year is 1987, he insists on asking every single person about the Cultural Revolution, obviously fishing for horror stories - and when a poor farmer tells him the Cultural Revolution for him meant an improvement, he simply refuses to believe it. Generally Thubron seems remarkably hostile to the society he is travelling in, not just politically, but also with regard to culture and habits. He is duly impressed by China's history and architecture, but seems to find most Chinese people he meets easily boring and backwards, and even helpful officials lazy and corrupt. There is probably some truth in this, in both the culture shock and the political cynicism, but it does make Thubron seem like a closed-minded conservative diplomat sent to some outpost of faded glory and poor manners.Overall though, the book contains sufficient memorable descriptions of both famous and less familiar places and sites in China to make it easily worth the read. One could object that sometimes Thubron is so selective in what provides his inspiration that many a large city or 500 km trip passes by without much description, but he can be forgiven for this by the rule that a writer should be allowed to use only that raw material he can work with. And when he does it, he does it well. Much has changed in China since "Behind the Wall", and foreign travel will now not be so remarkable and lead to such friendly bemused responses among the Chinese as in those days, but perhaps for just that reason this book is a good portrait of a China that is past.
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