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Book descriptionThis is a surprisingly short book, rather a booklet, by Paul Theroux, spanning barely 64 pages. Theroux takes a luxury boat ride down the great Yangtze river in China in 1984, starting from Chungking (Chongqing) and ending in the city of Shanghai. Unlike his other travels, he does this trip in the company of a number of American millionaires. If one has read his later work on China, `Riding the Iron Rooster, one would find that some of the views expressed here are echoed there as well. Since I read this book in 2014, a good thirty years after it was written, I had the luxury of looking at the prognosis made in the book about the future of China and comparing it with what we know today.It is clear that Theroux is not a Sinophile. So, no one should read this book looking for `feeling good about China. Nor is he a fan of his `millionaire travelling companions. I was aware of what Theroux thought of China, having read `Riding the Iron Rooster. But I was surprised by his pessimism about mankinds future as well. It looks as though China depressed him quite a bit.On China and the future, he writes, ...travelling down the Yangtze is also a glimpse of the future. In a hundred years or so, under a cold uncolonized moon, what we call the civilized world will all look like China, muddy and senile and old-fangled: no trees, no birds and shortages of fuel, meat and metal; but plenty of pushcarts, cobblestones, ditch-diggers and wooden inventions. Nine hundred million farmers splashing through puddles and the rest of the population growing weak and blind working the crashing looms in black factories........Our future is this mildly poisoned earth and its smoky air. We are in for hunger and hard work, the highest stage of poverty - no starvation but crudeness everywhere, clumsy art, simple language, bad books, brutal laws, plain vegetables and clothes of one color. It will be damp and dull....wil be monochrome and crowded....a version of China....the Chinese are practical, unspiritual, materialistic, baffled and hungry and these qualities had brought a crudity and terrible fatigue to their country. In order to stay alive they had to kill the imagination; the result was a vegetable economy and a monochrome culture. Surely, these are searing words.In 1984, China had slogans written all over about all sorts of things. Theroux says, ...In China, anyone will write anything anywhere. For example, `Love Public Property would be written on the face of a fine historical building, defacing it in the process. He remarks about barren hills along the Yangtze and pollution in the cities even in 1984, when Chinas modernization had just began. So, the pollution in China that we read about so much these days, is perhaps not entirely due to the rapid industrialization.Elsewhere there are some original observations about his millionaire travelling companions on the boat. He observes that they ask about how much water flowed through a particular spot on the Yangtze, the depth, the width and the population here and there, the voltage on an electric transformer and so on. Demanding statistics was a way of getting ones moneys worth when you spend $10000 to sail down China, concludes the author. Reading the book in 2014, one can see how many of these judgements about China or the future have not been anywhere as bad as envisaged. I doubt if anyone would call China a monochrome culture today or would think that our future in 2084 is destined to be one of poverty and deprivation. Hangzhou and Suzhou (Hankow, Suchow) are known to be pretty garden cities in China and three gorges on the Yangtze is supposed to be a magnificent sight. But Paul Theroux hardly makes a positive remark about either.I think one should read the authors `Riding the Iron Rooster to get a composite view of what he says about China. Reading this booklet in isolation does not do justice to Paul Theroux.Sailing Through China by Paul Theroux no registration read macbook full sale
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