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《失落的传承》
作者：基兰·德赛
*2006布克奖获奖作品
继第一部小说《番石榴果园里的喧闹》之后，德赛的这部脍炙人口的第二部小说将故事背景锁定在20世纪80年代中期的印度，当时正值尼泊尔独立运动顶峰时期。故事的主人公，从剑桥大学毕业的退休法官Jemubhai Popatlal与他失去双亲的孙女Sai以及厨子住在喜马拉雅山脚下的噶伦堡。这个临时家庭的邻居包括：一位可能熟谙V. S. 奈保尔的小说，但却多半——至少在动荡局面汹涌而至这一区域之前——对其如今岌岌可危的社会地位并无感知的亲英派同行。Jemubhai，由于拥有一把猎枪和英国产饼干，而成为运动的矛头所指。革命潮流不仅威胁到了上述人物的生命，而且也打扰了16岁的Sai与他的尼泊尔导师Gyan间的懵懂恋情。而这个时候，厨子的儿子Biju也因其在纽约的非法居民身份而遭受着折磨。所有这些人物都在努力维持着他们彼此之间的情感纽带的同时，也在同他们的文化认同以及现代化推动力进行着抗争。这是一部既有幽默感又发人深省的小说。通过小说中滑稽与沉思的交替描写手法，Desai的笔触灵巧地穿梭于第一世界和第三世界之间，描述出了被放逐的痛苦，后殖民时代的不确定性，以及对“更好生活”的盲目追求。在那个时候，一个人的富有往往建立在另一个人的贫穷之上。
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《宴会虫》
作者：严歌苓
其短片小说曾被改编为电影《天浴》的严，针对其故土中国的资本主义升起进行了尖锐的批判。一个多方面身份错乱的闹剧，严的小说描绘了下岗工人丹东（Dan Dong）到处骗吃骗喝的冒险经历，他混入招待记者吃喝的奢侈宴会，并因为听取——并且运气好的话可以在公司和慈善演讲中讲话——而得到“劳务”费。丹很快印出了名片，注明自己是“来自某互联网新闻网站的记者”，并借此搭上了免费宴会大餐的列车。严揭露了其故事发生的荒诞，对宴会食品的过多描述进一步表达了她对那些在无数人还在挨饿的时候自己却象“大山深林的动物”般贪婪地大郐其口的人物的厌恶之情。但是，当丹的报告将其引入危险而影响深远的耻辱，并且在“宴会虫”制裁中遭到逮捕时，故事的笔调却发生了转变。严的构思很巧妙，但是有些生硬的对话以及一些笨拙的描写很清楚地说明 “英文并非她的母语”，虽然这其中也不乏一些显露其巨大潜能的诱人的别致描写（“她那带着烟味的话语，在飘进他的耳朵之前，让他的鼻孔抢了先”）。
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《法兰西组曲》
作者：伊莱娜·内米洛夫斯基(法)
由于其二战前法国的畅销小说而出名的出生于俄罗斯的犹太人Némirovsky于1942年夏天搭船前往奥斯威辛，在此之后数月内，开始了这部曾遗失很久最终浮出水面的典著的写作。当1940年纳粹势力覆盖法国北部的时候，皈依天主教的Némirovsky开始了五部系列小说的写作计划。此引人入胜、未加润色却是令人为之一震的前两部简短“组曲”在作者去世后60多年才得以浮出水面。第一部《六月风暴》描绘了在巴黎处于完全不同的紧急关头时，人们的交织生活，在他们当中有自命不凡的作者、唯利是图的银行家、照顾着难以约束的孤儿的高贵牧师、浮华的唯美主义者以及一对处于下层社会的可爱的夫妇，所有人都在德国人到来之前的仅有的数小时放弃城市的舒适生活逃往秩序混乱的乡下。第二部《柔板》的背景锁定在德国占领下的1941年的乡村，描绘了农民、他们漂亮的女儿们以及卑微的中产阶级汉奸如何与他们的纳粹统治者们共同生活在一小片蓝天下的故事。在遭到捕前的几个星期之前，在其工作笔记本中，Némirovsky写道，她的目标是描写“日常生活、情感生活，尤其是生活中的喜剧元素”。此无畏的作品的确是如此展开的，带着同情和清晰的认识，作者将笔触聚焦到了个人故事上。
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《炼金术士》（又名《牧羊少年奇幻之旅》）
作者：保罗·科埃略
被翻译成60种语言，被销往全球3000万读者，《炼金术士》可谓是现代之一大经典杰作。通过简洁、明快而引人入胜的寓言故事，《炼金术士》启发了其遍布全球的读者们去倾听自己的内心，追随自己的梦想。在本故事中，随着安达卢西亚牧羊人圣地亚哥的寻梦脚步，让我们陪其一起踏上前往北非的财富和精神追寻之旅。
“最特别的事情也是人生中最简单的事情：只有智慧的人才能够明白这些。”一位占卜者对开始寻梦的圣地亚哥说的话：这一观点似乎也适用于保罗·科埃略本人，现在，这一观点实际上贯穿于他自己的所有文学作品。
旅行者、心灵找寻者、梦想家以及哲学炼金术士们必读之作。
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《大师与玛格丽特》
作者：米哈伊尔.鲍加可夫
当身着正式礼服的魔鬼在如人块头的持枪雄猫的陪同下进入莫斯科时，几乎毋庸置疑地预示着一场浩劫的到来。尽管魔鬼声称其目的是值得赞美的，但是随着全面的暴乱的到来，却带来了死亡、毁灭以及堕落放荡。
二十世纪俄罗斯经典作品《大师与玛格丽特》是一部奇特、出色的超现实主义作品。鲍加可夫活在斯大林政权的镇压之下，小说即充满了爆笑场面，同时也包含了对苏维埃莫斯科文化与政治气候的尖锐讽刺。那些喜爱萨曼·拉什代和加布里埃尔·加西亚作品的书迷们，也将会着迷于这一富有想象的杰作，当然不会弄错——《大师与玛格丽特》很显然是属于这一类型的小说。
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《追风筝的人》
作者：卡勒德·胡赛尼（美）
自从出版发行以来，三年的时间过去了，读者们对《追风筝的人》的热情却依然不减。一部令人难忘的美妙小说，处于其核心的是最大的、最难以解决的冲突——无论是国内以及世界活动舞台上，都充斥着人们互相统治的欲望。
埃米尔和哈桑是一对好朋友。在喀布尔，埃米尔的漂亮的家中，他们一起渡过了一段玩闹嬉戏的时光。但是，这对好朋友同时还是主仆关系。随着男孩的长大以及阿富汗的国家形势以前所未有的压力和危险的方式对他们的生活产生影响时，他们之间的关系变得愈加复杂和艰难起来。一件可怕的事件在检验着埃米尔和哈桑之间的友谊，但是在两个男孩却浑然不知。俄罗斯对阿富汗的侵略将埃米尔推到了美国，去寻找新的生活，并开始经历着移民生活的动荡不安。当最后他终于返回到祖国时，发现一切都那么地陌生，于是，埃米尔努力地从被毁城市的遗留碎石中去挖掘童年的记忆，以及自己的那份尊严。《追风筝的人》故事精彩，语言优美，语言朴实而亲切，是一部不容错过的好书。
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《蝇王》
作者：威廉·戈尔丁（英）
当一架飞机撞到一座孤岛时，一群介于13-16岁得以幸存的男学生们由于发现终于得到了没有大人约束的自由而欣喜若狂。但是，很快，他们最初的欣喜被阴暗的东西渐渐笼罩，随着恐惧的到来，以及被救援的希望的愈加渺茫，这些可怜的孩子们开始陷入混乱之中。
有着地狱般处境极端描述的《蝇王》，对试图将其加以分类的诸多尝试提出了挑战。惊怂片、冒险片、寓言片以及政治专题片纷纷被加到它的头上。在对人类本能的描述中，小说对人性善的一面进行了颠覆，揭露了人性的不可预知性以及可怕性。在这部真正的经典之作，《蝇王》的这一版本中，增加了爱德华·摩根·福斯特（E.M Forster）的新引言。
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《海》
作者：约翰·班维尔
你觉得自己的词汇量够大吗？那么，来购买这本约翰·班维尔慷慨成功写就的2005布克奖作品《海》吧。故事场景锁定在爱尔兰西海岸的一个阴冷而古老的海边小镇，小说场景在艺术史学家Max Morden过去遥远的童年和现在与酒相伴的成年间不断地转换，他在努力说服自己接受中年丧妻这一事实，以及向对其人生造成改变的童年伤痛作出妥协。
这部小说并非什么轻喜剧，而是一部打造得几乎完美的艺术作品。通过优雅、骚动且绝对出色的人物塑造和处境方面的描写，以及对纯洁、艰难而朴实的人性的描述，《海》一定会让那些班维尔的新读者和老书迷们为之着迷。
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《我的名字叫红》
作者：奥尔罕·帕慕克
跟其所塑造的许多人物所不同的是，奥尔罕·帕慕克从来没有离开过生他的那座城市，但是象伊斯坦布尔这样的一座城市，却有着可供数百个人生讲述的故事。在欧洲与亚洲间的桥上，看起来似乎遥远的世界已经通过了这些著名的狭路，但踪迹却依然留在了拜占庭（即东罗马帝国）的城市小巷上。《我的名字叫红》是一部围绕爱情、艺术、宗教以及政治铺展开来，充满沉思的推理小说。在犹如轻烟般的叙述中，浸满了文化、传说、历史以及哲学元素。远古传统与人类激情间相互绷紧的作用通过油画、浪漫史、信念以及谋杀的交叉讲述得到了鲜明的阐明。慢慢地，一点一点地，大量极其主观的第一人称讲述者们打造了一部区别于消遣对话和天马行空的描写的叙述性故事。引人入胜的是，各个片段间互相衔接，逐渐融入到同一个生动结局。小说丰富的结构和窘异的思想借用阿拉伯式图饰点缀或拜占庭式镶嵌图案所传达的热情、悲伤以及优雅，为这座远古城市的荒凉冬季唤起了一点生机。
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《异常喧扰，极度靠近》
作者：乔纳森·萨法兰·佛耳
虽然距离2001年9月11日世贸中心大厦被撞坍塌已有4年的时间，针对事件以及其后续事件涌现出了大量文章。但是，这些中的许多（如果不是全部的话）都没有为我们带来什么不朽的文学经典之作。也许，有关那些日子的权威性书籍还有待完成，但是在那些已经完成的作品当中，《异常喧扰，极度靠近》却因为其取材和对人物痛苦的感知得以脱颖而出。这不是一曲过分矫饰的挽歌，或是愤世嫉俗的政治操作，而是因为那场灾难早已成为一种记号，因此，作者结合两者对悲剧元素进行了适度的削减。基地组织、各种政府机构、抗议者们、以及世界上的很大一部分人都已将袭击看成是一个记号，或者一种催化剂，某种手段，但是乔纳森·萨法兰·佛耳却提醒我们，那数千名死难者们也可以创造一个非常有力的、带来心灵震撼的结局。本书的讲述围绕一个有些过度敏感但却极其聪明的9岁小男孩展开。他的父亲于9·11中丧生，给他留下了一把钥匙。于是，我们的这位小主人翁踏上了离奇而神秘的唐吉诃德式的寻锁过程。随着故事的发展，向我们展现了大量令人伤感的景观——生命因为死者而有了新的定义——并且以讽刺性的新眼光向世界展现着，以灾难后的新视角重新评价着一切。
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EMBERS
by Sandor Marai
As traditions scatter on the winds of change and nations shift beneath our feet, the quintessential crisis of modernity is one of definition. Modernity, however, is not a single moment in time so much as every moment in time. In this way, Sandor Marai’s lost novels from the first part of the 20th Century are prescient today as they were then. With the glittering age of the Austro-Hungarian Empire long past, two old men meet for a single, vital, and final survey of their lives, filled with love and friendship, but also loss and betrayal. Embers is a slim novel, a single claustrophobic dialogue in an isolated forest estate, but it ranges all across the world and the human experience over the course of a single night. Marai is a master of prose on par with or exceeding his peers Kafka, Hesse, and Mann. His style is brisk, fresh, and dazzlingly vivid. His mastery of the unsaid infuses the book with a sense of mystery and dark drama. With clarity and emotional force, Embers transcends its own generation and cuts to the core of what is modern life. |
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AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS
by Oliver Sacks
Philosophers for years have speculated over the role of perception, memory and the mind in determining the substance of our reality, often with no conclusive results. Sheepishly they must realize, upon reading the works of Oliver Sacks, that perhaps they should have conducted more field research! In what is his best-developed collection of case studies to date, Dr. Sacks reveals a metaphysical laboratory through the practice of neurology. In recounting his experiences with artists, teachers, surgeons and Hare Krisnas, all somehow different from the clinical norm, he is neither obscurely technical nor needlessly simplistic. He does not romanticize the challenges in these people’s lives, but his focus is clearly not on the pathos, but on the ethos. With tender subtlety we are led, not lectured, down the path of diagnosis, understanding, and ultimately to questions at the very foundations of the human experience as we know it. With a light touch, humor, and no small amount of empathy, Dr. Sacks brings some much needed humanity to the often cold and technical field of neuropsychology.
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《中国通/华尔街银行家跌倒在中国地图上》
作者：提姆·克里索德(英)
20世纪90年代初期，在中国，终于掀起了商业开放的浪潮，华尔街对于中国市场跃跃欲试。当身着细条纹服装、饮着小酒、持有哈佛大学MBA学位的投资银行家们从纽约来到中国，准备与这里的“老干部们”谈判时，一个华尔街亿万富翁与世界上最古老文化间相碰撞的舞台便被搭建了起来。这是一个关于到达事业顶峰却不满足的坚韧的华尔街银行家的真实故事。为了寻找辉煌，他来到中国投入到下一个新的投资浪潮中，在此期间，与一位红卫兵和一名居住北京的英国人结成结伴，三人共同筹集了4亿美元的资金在中国各地大办工厂。他们本以为计划得甚是周密，但严酷的现实却很快让他们意识到，中国并非一个按照常规出牌的地方。在他们的中国合作伙伴另谋出路的时候，剩下异乡人孤守着他们的会议室，看着他们数百万的资金流入深不见底的黑洞。在别无选择只能迎战的窘镜下，为重获对其企业的控制权，他们投身到了一系列孤注一掷的抗挣之中。在他们的挣扎过程中，揭开了这一广阔而复杂的国家的面纱，它知道现代化是一种必然，但在整个历史过程中，却在与外来者的交涉中始终保持着一种优势。克里索德时而会以愉快而有趣的口吻讲述着自己的离奇故事，结局是令人愉快的，整个故事是对传统中国商业的神秘世界的大开眼界，以及对华尔街和西方商业学校培训的局限性的富有教育性的洞察。通过一个真实而令人振奋的富有人情味的故事，作者为我们打开了一扇东、西方间相互理解的窗口，这其中，有冒险经历，有闹剧成分，同时还涉及到大额的资金投入。
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AN END TO SUFFERING
by Pankaj Mishra
An End to Suffering is a search to understand the Buddha’s relevance in today’s world, where religious violence, poverty, and terrorism prevail. Traveling extensively through the West as well at the East, Pankaj Mishra explores the myths and places of the Buddha’s life, examines the West’s "discovery" of Buddhism, and considers the impact of Buddhist ideas on modern politics. The result is the most ambitious,convincing book on the Buddha that we have. |
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《十亿消费者：第一手中国经商经验》
作者：詹姆斯·麦格雷戈/麦健陆(美)
有着13亿张嘴需要去养活的中国消费者市场甚至大过北美市场和西欧市场之和。外资企业蜂拥而至，在这里进行着买卖交易。现在，作为第一本呈现作为全球经济强国崛起的中国的连贯画面的《十亿消费者：第一手中国经商经验》最大化地向我们展现了一名倍受尊崇的记者、知名的顾问、以及中国商业权威的博大知深。
共产党专政决定了其自身所特有的资本主义形式的实践，在这里，有着长期困惑于中国商业实践的晦涩难懂且矛盾多多的外国投资者们。本权威性书籍对中国奸险的商业环境进行了挖掘探究，针对人物、商业交易以及作者“从创建中国合资投资银行到利用60亿美元阐述中国商业车轮如何被腐蚀的走私者的乐园 ”所得到的经验进行了引人入胜的讲述。
在中国经商有上百种战略，这一空前的报告在讲叙中国走向强大的故事的同时，也向我们提供了实践经验。
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THE BOOKWORM eLONG KIDS TRAVEL WRITING COMPETITION 2006!!
Thanks to everyone who entered this year’s competition. It was certainly a tricky job for our judges, but the winners have been announced…
Look out for their work in ‘The Rough Guide to the Coolest Places for Young Travellers’ to be published later this year! Read on for the winning entries in each age category.
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Winning entry 12-13 years old:
SIOBHAN SMITH |
Out There
Look attentively; the trees have bottle green and chocolate brown leaves, the cloudless sky so blue, and the soil so red. The uneven dirt road bumps the car this way and that, while the dazzling sun shines through the glass of the car window. See the snake on the side of the road, coiled under a tree, as dark as an endless pit. Wind down the window; a smell so wonderful comes wafting through it, it smells like fresh dew on the lime green grass, like the sapphire blue sea. Listen carefully; hear the sea rolling on to the sandy shore, the birds twittering and laughing in the trees, the soft breeze rustling the fading leaves.
The car winds this way and that along the twisting road. It begins to leisurely slow down, you hear the crunching of the dried leaves on the ground, as tyres gradually roll over them. The car wheels stop spinning, and you stop. You can see a clearing the size of a large fig tree. It has magnificent trees surrounding it; the ground is a mixture of brown and red earth. It’s perfect.
Getting out the car and looking around, you realize that something is not there. Something is missing, but it’s sometimes nice for that something not to be there. People. All around you, everywhere near, is empty. A silence wraps around you, making you shiver. The only other people who are there are those who came in the car.
Thud! The tent comes crashing to the ground when Dad throws it off the 4×4. He stands on top of the car, passing things down, unloading. Deciding to help, you take the tent out of its bag, putting the pegs to the side. Everyone comes to help. Your mother, father and brother all are working together to put up your home, your shelter, the protection that you’ll all sleep under.
Stand back. Take a look. Your tent stands tall, sloping downwards. The khaki colour stands out clearly as the sun shines behind it. Walk towards it; breathe in the smell of the tent, that special scent which can only come from a tent. Unzip the zip. Can you hear the sound that comes only from a tent zip? It’s thrilling.
Walk down toward the beach. Feel the fishing box in your right hand, weighing you down with its hooks, sinkers, knives and bait. In your left hand feel the fishing rod that will catch your dinner. Take off your shoes, sink you feet into the sand, squish it between your toes. Walk up the small cliff; see the rough waves below you. The wind blows your hair back, knotting it in the wind.
Tie the hook and float onto the line. Cast it into the sea. Watch it bob up and down in the sea, until it goes under, pulled down by a fish. Feel the sensation as you reel it in.
It’s magical. It’s where we all belong.
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Winning entry 14 years and up:
KEVIN LIU "Sao Paulo: The Real Thing"
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Sau Paulo: The Real Thing
Waking up on a Wednesday morning in the heart of Sao Paulo is like no other. A city where neither crime nor fun needs a time and place. For a retired man such as my grandfather Wednesday is ‘Feira’ (market day), where locals rush early in the morning to buy tropical fruits and vegetables at a reasonable price. With a million and one sweets and little delicacies to choose from one can eat their breakfast here for a couple of dollars. My grandfather picks a ‘pastel’, a traditional fried pastry crammed with everything from palm heart to mozzarella cheese and shrimps. But a meal is not a meal without a drink is it? Unfortunately for my grandfather he has diabetes and cannot drink ‘caldo de cana’, juice freshly squeezed from sugar canes, occasionally mixed with lemons or pineapples. Instead he orders a tiny espresso whose smell lures all around, but whose bitter taste disgusts those who are used to a bland Starbucks with more sugar than coffee. Soon after eating my grandfather pulls his little cart along street after street of hopeful vendors selling everything from rare fruits to live fish fit for a meal of five. The morning ends with the sound of noon from the grumbling stomach of my dear old grandfather.
Taking the bus home is a complete adventure all on its own for a first time visitor. The miserable heat inside the unair-conditioned bus makes the shirt stick to one’s back. The smell of car exhaust from one of the most polluted cities in the world fills everyone’s lungs as if they smoked. The sight of graffiti covering the walls of every building without an armed guard brings out the sad reality of a city ruled by gangs. Barbed wire and electric fences encircle every building capable of affording such a luxury. But inside the bus itself all sorts of ordinary people can be seen: a spotless white dentist smelling of antiseptic, a mother clinging to her child like an oyster with its pearl, and even the occasional musician playing for tips.
Once off the bus the first thing my grandfather does is check that he hasn’t been pick- pocketed by someone. As soon as he’s checked, he’s back to pulling his cart along the weatherworn pavement with more holes than level ground. A I walk down the busy streets of downtown Sao Paulo with my grandfather, we are soon lost amongst the 17 million citizens who make this city what it is today. |
ON SATURDAY 21ST APRIL WE HELD OUR FIRST NGO AND CHARITY NETWORKING DAY AT THE BOOKWORM
THESE ARE THE ORGANISATIONS WHICH TOOK PART |
HAU DAN – Theatre for Migrant Women
www.hua-dan.org
[email protected]
Telephone: 15801447681
Chi Heng Foundation
Holly Naylor
Beijing Office
Tel/Fax: +8610 5820 8559
Mobile: +86 136 8334 1471
www.chfaidsorphans.com
[email protected]
Peoplelink
Jane Pierini
Tel: +8610 8206 6558
Mobile +86 135 2245 8907
www.peoplelink.org.cn
[email protected]
Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Centre
北京文化遗产保护中心
Xi Lou Hutong, Yonghegong Dajie, Dongcheng, Beijing
www.bjchp.org
Tel：(86-10) 6403 4932
Fax：(86-10) 6403 6632
E-mail：[email protected]
International Bridges to Justice
Jennifer Tsai
Room 2101, Changyuan Tiandi Building B
18 Suzhou Street
Beijing 100080 China
Tel: 86 (0) 10 8260 8305
Fax: 86 (0) 10 8260 8386
Mobile: 86 13401078064
www.ibj.org
[email protected]
Greenpeace
Dong Wan
Floor 19,Unit 2,Block E,
Lanchou Famous Building,Jiqingli,
Chaowai Street,Chaoyang District,
Beijing China 100020, China.
Phone: (86) 10 6554 6931*189
Mobile: (86) 1391 0637242
http://www.greenpeace.org/china/zh/
Red Cross
Helena Laatio
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Regional Delegation for East Asia
4-1-133, Jianguo Men Wai Diplomatic Compound
Beijing 100600
CHINA
e-mail: [email protected]
tel: +86 10 6532 7162/ ext 18
fax: +86 10 6532 7166
mobile. +86 13911710635
Harmony Outreach
Jacquelien Langenberg
PO Box 002
Langfang Development Zone
Langfang, Hebei 065001
+86 139 1030 7350
[email protected]
Roots and Shoots
Erika Helms
Executive Director, the Jane Goodall Institute China
Beijing City International School (BCIS) Room 1309
No. 77 Baiziwan Nan Er Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100022
Tel: 6778-3115
Fax: 6778-2757
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.jgichina.org
Oxfam
Li Yan 李艳 (Ellen Li)
China Unit Oxfam Hong Kong
86-10-65512635/36 Ext:629
Mobile:13910035235
Email：yli@oxfam.org.hk
Website:www.oxfam.org.hk
Magic Hospital
Magic Hospital China c/o SmallSteps ( China ) Ltd.
16 Gongti Bei Lu
1402 Xingfu Yuan Gongyu, Chaoyang District
Beijing 100027 China
Contact: Magda The
[email protected]
www.magichospital.org
CESRRDC
Dr. Eva Sternfeld
China Environment and Sustainable Development
Reference and Research Center
China-Japan Friendship Environmental Protection Center
Room 701
#1 Yu Hui Nanlu
100029 Beijing, China
Tel./Fax: 86-10-84636353
Mobile: 86-13910842647
http://www.chinaeol.net/cesdrrc
Children’s Hope International
www.childrenshopeint.org/china.htm
Anna Zhang
13910323778
New Day Foster Home
Ms Chen
13031131973
http://newdaycreations.com/foster/front.htm |
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CHINA SHAKES THE WORLD by James Kynge
Winner of the Financial Times Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2006
A former bureau chief of the Financial Times in Beijing, Kynge demonstrates how China’s thirst for jobs, raw materials, energy, and new markets–and its export of goods, workers, and investments–will dramatically reshape world trade and politics. China’s appetite, though unpremeditated and inarticulate, has become a source of major change in the world. Napoleon said, “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” In the early days of the twenty-first century, China has started shaking the world with its prowess in manufacturing. Not all is rosy, however, because China has serious problems with its environmental resources, severe pollution, and institutionalized corruption within the government, the legal system, the police force, and the media. The question Kynge offers answers to is how the world will cope with China’s extremes of both strength and weakness. |
The
Bookworm
Building 4, Nan Sanlitun Road,
Chao Yang District, Beijing
100000, P.R. China
Tel: (010) 6586 9507
Email: [email protected] |
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