汉语世界（2019年第1期）总第74期汉语世界（The World of Chinese）

2019 Issue 1

Growing up. Leaving home. Going back, and grieving for what’s lost. The cycle is as old as civilization, and it’s yet one that feels, to each generation, unique, a burden to be borne by them alone.

故乡是人们心中永远的牵绊。又是春节将近，有人回到家乡与亲友团聚，有人旅居异乡换种方式过年。不论时代如何变幻，不论我们身在何处，人们心中都有一份化不开的乡愁。2019年第一期，《汉语世界》与您聊聊那些与故乡有关的人和事

封面故事：乡情：每个人心中都有一块绿洲，它的名字叫“故乡”

主题故事：新一代古生物学家在中国掀起“恐龙热”
主题故事：盗墓不是考古，界线不可跨越
主题故事：太极拳究竟是老年人的锻炼项目，还是博大精深的真功夫？
星闻：过去的一年开启了“流量明星”的凛冬时代？
吃了吗：春卷：春到人间一卷之
镜像中国：世外高人，斫琴山下
40年：红旗轿车探寻国产品牌复兴之路

小说、艺术、语言……从国际视角欣赏中国文化，用地道英文讲述中国故事。有温情，有幽默，有新观点，有真态度……从封面到封底，让人欲罢不能


 

Table of Contents

Cover Story: Home Bound
看过万千风景，难忘一脉乡情
Going home for Chinese New Year may be an annual tradition, but for many urbanized Chinese, it’s not just a physical journey, but an unsettling return to a countryside that has shown vast economic and cultural gulfs with the city since the reform era. Amid their regret over empty village homes and conflicts with old-fashioned values, rural-to-urban migrants weigh in on what hometown means to them: family, friends, and neighbors—or a nostalgic way of life that only lives in their memories?
Tai Chi Hustle
我们该如何定义太极拳？
A respected and multi-faceted practice dating back centuries, tai chi has lately faced a slew of PR disasters, as unscrupulous “masters” use fraud to prove their practice is more than a physical exercise for seniors. Is tai chi really a martial art? And can its ancient reputation survive an onslaught of modern alternatives?
Roaring Trade
随着“恐龙热”在中国兴起，古生物学的发展愈加引人关注
With an infrastructure boom uncovering thousands of new fossils, China has become a global hotspot for paleontology. A new generation of dinosaur hunters now compete with profit-hungry real estate developers, indifferent undergrads, and a public slow to take interest in their prehistoric past
Raiders of the Lost Art
“盗墓”不是考古，界线不可跨越
Up to 100,000 tomb raiders—both amateur archeologists and fortune-hunters—may be combing the countryside for ancient sites to plunder. With new sites being discovered every year, and a vast market for stolen goods, the advice “to get rich, raid a tomb” has never been more relevant
Dragon’s Digest
《移居未来》
Ticket to Tomorrow
It’s a not-so-distant era, when people pay top dollar to freeze themselves and hope to wake up in a more prosperous and ecological decade. In this short sci-fi tale, two friends take different paths to the future—but only one will make peace with the present
Kaleidoscope
Pulling Strings
斫琴尘嚣外
On a lonely mountain, a solitary man persists an acetic lifestyle. This is no ordinary hermit, though: Lei Jiangwei is an artisan who has devoted his life to producing handmade zithers to an exacting standard rarely to be found elsewhere. These ancient instruments may no longer be played by Confucian scholars, but here in Lei’s workshop, they twang with the echoes of a refined era
Pop Culture
The Han Over
“流量”明星遭遇凛冬？
Pop megastar Lu Han may have got a girlfriend, but his fans are deserting him in favor of the next batch of “little fresh meat,” prompting questions about the fickle nature of celebrity and the shallowness of the “internet traffic star” phenomenon
40 Years
Raise the Red Flag
红旗汽车：国产品牌探寻复兴之路
Mao’s Hongqi sedan has announced plans to transition to the capitalist age after a nearly three-decade hiatus, but the old-school car brand faces a mature market that favors luxury foreign imports and more recent domestic favorites
Gallery
回乡之旅
Around Towns
A professor and a multimedia artist have poured four years of research into “Homeward Bound,” a New York-based exhibition that tries to tell the stories of Chinatowns on every continent   
On the Road
Fire down below
贵州：景也醉人，酒也醉人
Welcome to Maotai, home of China’s most iconic liquor brand. This region of Guizhou province lays claim to three famous intoxicants, and if strong spirits aren’t your drug of choice, perhaps the beautiful scenery—or a mysterious poison, made from venomous creatures battling to the death—will leave you reeling
Chi Le Ma
Spring It On
春到人间一卷之
They may not be as closely associated with the season as dumplings, but spring rolls are a versatile year-round snack, marking the beginning of the farming season and signalling changing tastes around the country
Saving China
Search for the River Goddess
寻找“长江女神”白鱀豚
Sightings of a purportedly extinct dolphin in the Yangtze River made waves in April 2018. But can renewed interest in the baiji save the ecosystem from decades of illegal fishing, industrial pollution, and unmotivated law enforcement?