Smoke and Mirror: An Experience of China - Pallavi Aiyar

活动介绍

　　单向街·沙龙第一百七十三期：
　　
　　主题：烟雾与镜子·一个印度记者眼中的中国
　　
　　嘉宾：Pallavi Aiyar
　　时间：2008年8月3日（周日）15：00——17：00
　　地点：单向街·万达广场店
　　路线：北京市朝阳区建国路万达广场索菲特酒店路西针织路向北100米无何有·咖啡（北京电缆厂对面）
　　

介绍：
　　
　　印度人的身份，给了Pallavi Aiyar观察中国的一个不同于一般西方人的视角。有人曾说，如果不是因为喜马拉雅山，龙象之间早就不能像如今一样相对克制地相处。然而，在中印两国人的 眼中，事实真的如此吗？透过Pallavi Aiyar的眼睛，我们将看到中印作为两个伟大的文明，各自的成败在哪，在对方的印象中各自又是怎样的。理解中印国家的荣耀、民族的偏见或是文明之间的误 解，都将让我们更好地理解对方…
　　
　　嘉宾：
　　
　　Pallavi Aiyar是印度日报(The Hindu group of publications)的驻北京记者。她于印度的St Stephen's College New Delhi获得哲学学位之后，又相继获得了牛津大学(Oxford University)的当代历史学、伦敦政经大学(LSE)的传媒社会学学位。2007年，她以她在政治领域出色的报道和分析能力，获得普雷姆·巴蒂亚 纪念奖（Prem Bhatia Memorial Award）殊荣，成为此奖项最年轻的获奖者。近五年以来，她与她来自西班牙的丈夫、还有两只猫居住在紫禁城北边儿的一个小院子里，就是在这个院子里，观 察和报道着中国。今年，她出版了她的第一版著作"Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China"，书中阐述了她几年来在中国的各种经历。
　　Pallavi Aiyar的个人网站是：www.pallaviaiyar.com


Smoke And Mirrors: An Experience Of China China is at an historical point where tradition and modernity, communism and capitalism, chaos and control, freedom and dissent, amongst other dualities rub up against each other on a daily basis. In order to remain in power through this period of fundamental and far-reaching transformations, the Chinese Communist Party must walk a tightrope, balancing and mediating the conflicting needs, desires and aspirations of its various constituencies. For Chinese people in general as well this is a challenging period requiring enormous adjustments both psychologically and materially to rapidly altering circumstances.Pallavi Aiyar's Smoke and Mirrors spotlights these contradictions as well as the different strategies that the Party and the people deploy to manage this process of negotiation. It also aims at portraying China through Indian eyes and vice versa; a mirroring that shows up the failings and achievements of both civilizations--which are in many ways each other's alter ego. It takes a look at how people from the two sides of the Himalayas perceive each other; their prejudices and miscomprehensions as well as their similarities and shared circumstances. A combination of travelogue, reportage and memoir, this warm-hearted book is the first ever written by a Mandarin-speaking Indian foreign correspondent on China.