汉语世界（2021年第1期）总第86期汉语世界（The World of Chinese）

2021 ISSUE 1

The AI Issue

 

From facial recognition to chatbot companions, we examine how AI is changing Chinese lives. We see how mental health rehabilitation centers bring patients back into society; ride with motorcyclists from Beijing to the Tibetan highlands; head up the mountains with the last loggers of China’s northeast; dive under Qiandao Lake to explore submerged villages; and more

科幻般的人工智能时代似乎已然到来：摄像头可以分析识别人群中每一张脸，智能音箱可以语音控制智能家居，而“虚拟女友”程序甚至可以满足人们的情感需求。然而，应用技术收集的大量个人信息是否得到了妥善保护？人工智能和大数据如何影响人们的生活，又将带来怎样的未来？

 

本期两个主题故事和乡音栏目分别关注中国社区精神康复服务，四川、贵州、北京三地骑行文化，以及东北林场往事

 

封面故事：你爱人工智能吗？

主题故事：社区精神康复服务为患者架起了通往健康与社会的桥梁，但服务仍然稀缺

主题故事：四川、贵州、北京三地骑行见闻：摩托车是交通工具、身份的象征、炫耀的资本，也是自主或被动选择的生活方式

乡音：导演于广义讲述东北最后一群伐木工人的真实生活

镜像中国：血脉传承：僰人的祭祖礼俗

水墨丹青：大凉山策展人聊群展《山谷回音》

好书有笺：《异兽志》的奇幻世界

吃了吗：荔枝肉：酸甜可口，不是荔枝，胜似荔枝

社交汉语：凡尔赛文学入门指南

 

 

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，精彩内容不间断！

 

COVER STORY
You and AI
你爱人工智能吗？
Paying for purchases, turning on one’s phone—in the near future, all will be possible with a simple voice command or scan of one’s face, at least if China’s booming AI sector has its way. But as the technology pervades public security, and consumers embrace its convenience, the speed of innovation has outpaced privacy legislation and people’s awareness of what it means to share their data. We raise the question: Who does AI truly serve?
Feature Stories
House of Hope
希望之光：精神康复的曙光
Mental health has arrived on China’s national agenda, but what happens when patients leave the hospital? In the face of stigma and myriad challenges, a growing network of rehabilitation “clubhouses” seek a humanistic way of bringing mental health patients back into society
Ride or Die
四川、贵州、北京三地骑行见闻
Start your engines: From the secondhand rides of Tibetan herders and Guizhou workers, to the costly imported wheels of hobbyists in Beijing, we look at three vastly different subcultures in China that embrace the motorbike—as a tool, a source of pride, and a friend
Field Notes
The Last Lumberjacks
东北林场往事
“People, horses, and forest—three lives bound together, struggling for all they’re worth”: Filmmaker Yu Guangyi follows timber workers up the mountain on the eve of a logging ban, and recalls his childhood in the harsh environs of a northeastern Chinese forest farm
Kaleidoscope 镜像中国
Close to Heaven
丘北僰人独特的祭祖礼俗
A small community in Qiubei county, Yunnan province, claims to be the last descendants of the Bo, a once-powerful ethnic group that was wiped out in the 1500s. Singing songs of their “ancestors on the cliffs,” the Bo people of Qiubei ascend the mountain every tenth lunar month for a special ritual to honor their heritage and remember a violent past
Dragon’s Digest 三味书屋
Starside economy
短篇小说《银河系摆摊指南》
It’s the distant future, and Earth is a hub of the galactic economy. In this imaginative world created by writer Wang Nuonuo, a young entrepreneur sets up a street stall, but gets far more than he bargained for when an interplanetary business deal comes his way
Gallery 水墨丹青
Mountain Echoes
来自大凉山的回声
In the Liangshan region of Sichuan province, the youth collective Echo of Liangshan depicts life beyond poverty-relief headlines through photography, painting, video, and sound. As they put on an exhibition in Beijing, the curators muse on the power and meaning of art against a backdrop of rapid change
Memory Lane 那些年
Lost in Animation
国产动漫曾经的辉煌时代
Founded in 1957, the Shanghai Animation Film Studio was China’s “Disney,” pioneering a “Chinese school” of animation based on traditional tales and media like ink painting. Its cartoons are works of art as well as enjoyable classics—and its success is something today’s animators still envy
On The Road 在路上
Diving in the Deep
千岛湖水下探秘之旅
Zhejiang’s Qiandao (“Thousand Island”) Lake is a serene getaway for urbanites, but some visitors aren’t here for the scenery: Preserved under the water are centuries-old towns flooded during the construction of a local dam, with a tragic history and challenging conditions that prove irresistible for daring divers
Bookmark 好书有笺
The Beasts Within
《异兽志》的奇幻世界
“You can’t be sure that people aren’t just another type of beast,” states Yan Ge’s Strange Beasts of China. The fantastical thriller proceeds as a zoological study in a fictional city, and explores the idea of otherness through the tenuous boundary between beast and human
Zoetrope 视听空间
Master’s Return
《一秒钟》：张艺谋与胶片的回归
Arriving in cinemas after nearly two years’ delay and numerous deleted scenes, Zhang Yimou’s self-written character study set in the Cultural Revolution is a throwback to the “Fifth Generation” roots of the renowned director and a love letter to film itself
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