THE WORLD IN A CITY :TRAVELING THE GLOBE THROVGH THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE NEW NEW YORK
Book ID/图书代码： 01240007B16478
English Summary/英文概要： “The whole world can be found in this city. . . .”
–from the Preface
Fifty years ago, New York City had only a handful of ethnic groups. Today, the whole world can be found within the city’s five boroughs–and celebrated New York Times reporter Joseph Berger sets out to discover it, bringing alive the sights, smells, tastes, and people of the globe while taking readers on an intimate tour of the world’s most cosmopolitan city.
For urban enthusiasts and armchair explorers alike, The World in a City is a look at today’s polyglot and polychrome, cosmopolitan and culturally rich New York and the lessons it holds for the rest of the United States as immigration changes the face of the nation. With three out of five of the city’s residents either foreign-born or second-generation Americans, New York has become more than ever a collection of villages–virtually self-reliant hamlets, each exquisitely textured by its particular ethnicities, history, and politics. For the price of a subway ride, you can visit Ghana, the Philippines, Ecuador, Uzbekistan, and Bangladesh.
As Berger shows us in this absorbing and enlightening tour, New York is an endlessly fascinating crossroads. Naturally, tears exist in this colorful social fabric: the controversy over Korean-language shop signs in tony Douglaston, Queens; the uneasy proximity of traditional cottages and new McMansions built by recently arrived Russian residents of Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. Yet in spite of the tensions among neighbors, what Berger has found most miraculous about New York is how the city and its more than eight million denizens can adapt to–and even embrace–change like no other place on earth, from the former pushcart knish vendor on the Lower East Side who now caters to his customers via the Internet, to the recent émigrés from former Soviet republics to Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach and Midwood whose arrival saved New York’s furrier trade from certain extinction.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 50年前的紐約只有少部份的種族，今天我們可以在紐約的五大區看到全世界。透過紐約時報記者約瑟夫‧博格Joseph Berger的介紹我們將發現這個城市視覺上、嗅覺上、味覺上最活生生的一面，並與我們一同展開世上最國際化城市紐約的深度之旅。
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About the Author/作者介绍： 約瑟夫‧博格Joseph Berger，紐約時報The New York Times記者及專欄作家，主要報導教育、宗教及紐約地區等新聞。在他35年的記者生涯裡，曾報導過1973年的中東戰爭、水門案、教宗若望保祿二世的美國行等其他重要事件。作者除了獲教育類作家協會(Education Writers Association Award)頒獎致謝其對教育的貢獻，另外也曾三次獲得最高榮譽的宗教新聞報導協會(Religion Newswriters Association)所頒贈的Supple Award。之前的著作The Young Scientists: America’s Future and the Winning of the Westinghouse and Displaced persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust更入選紐約時報年度最佳好書(New York Times Notable Book of the Year)。目前與身為心理分析學家的妻子及與女兒居住在紐約州的維斯切斯特郡(Westchester County)
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