在同一世界:跨文化交流(英文) 节选

I first visited China in the summer of 1988, less than a decade afterDeng Xiaoping's economic reforms and policy of openness had launchedthe beginnings of what would become a Chinese industrial revolution.Near the end of a two-month long summer trip from Beijing to Chongqing,Nanjing and Hangzhou, I arrived in crowded, steaming Shanghai, wherea palpable energy could be felt among the optimistic, industrious andentrepreneurial citizens, and stayed at the brand-new Shanghai Hiltonhotel. Three years later I returned to China to translate for Canadian busi-ness management faculty who were becoming popular lecturers in packeduniversity halls at Chinese schools of economics. We were invited by theVice Mayor of Shanghai to visit the site of a new city under construction
　　 "4across the Huangpu River opposite the Bund. We were driven across thenewly erected Nanpu Bridge to the largest building site I had ever seen inmy life. The Director of the Management Committee of Shanghai PudongNew Area proudly showed us a model of towers and wide avenues thatseemed like something taken from the cover of a science-fiction novel.Work was to be completed in ten years, he declared. I don't think anyonein our group believed it was possible.

在同一世界:跨文化交流(英文) 作者简介

Zhao Qizheng graduated in nuclear physics from the ChinaUniversity of Science and Technology in 1963. He worked for thenext twenty years in nuclear research, design and production, thenas a professor, senior engineer, deputy plant director, and other re-lated positions. In 1984 he joined the Shanghai Municipal PartyCommittee, where he was appointed Minister of the OrganizationDepartment, Vice Mayor of Shanghai and Director of the ShanghaiPudong New Area Administration.
　　 In 1998 Zhao Qizheng became Director of the State CouncilInformation Office. Since March of 2008 he has served as Chairmanof the Foreign Affairs Committee of the CPPCC National Committee.He is also Dean of the China People's University School ofJournalism, and serves as Ph.D. supervisor at the China People'sUniversity and Nankai University.
　　 While Vice Mayor of Shanghai, Zhao Qizheng was respon-sible for foreign affairs and foreign trade. As Director of the StateCouncil Information Office, he was responsible for explaining Chi-nese national policy and social development to the media and throughinternational cultural exchange. He has traveIed to several dozencountries and met with numerous leaders in foreign politics, busi-ness and media, and established extensive contacts in the Chineseand overseas press.
　　　Zhao Qizheng's publications have become best-selling books,including: Explaining China to the World: Lectures and Discussionsby Zhao Qizheng, Explaining China to the World: Zhao Qizheng'sArt of Communication, America and Americans in the Eyes of theChinese, Riverside Talks: A Friendly Dialogue between an Atheistand a Christian （co-authored）, Pudong Logic: Development inPudong and Economic Globalization, etc.

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