BBC音频+文本:透过西方朋友的眼睛看中国历史人物

   
最近在BBC中读到(听到)一系列纪念中国历史人物的文章,感觉很有意思。据说可能出齐了将有十篇。作者是一位英国女记者Car­rie
Gracie,在英文维基上可以查到她的资料,她不但在中国工作、学习过,还与一位中国音乐人结婚生子,也算半个中国人了
……祝福这一家子!

   
细细读了几篇,觉得
Car­rie
Gracie所写虽并非学者笔力,但视角独到,观点颇耐人寻味,文中饱含的情感亦令人感动。作者的观点不必非要站队来赞同或排斥,作为一种新鲜的角度去看,还是颇能张大视野的。




 
 
 下面整理了出到目前的几篇文字和音频的地址:


    【标题】China: As
His­to­ry is My Wit­ness

    【简介】From emper­ors to
poets to gen­er­als, the BBC’s for­mer Bei­jing cor­re­spon­dent Car­rie
Gra­cie explores the lives of key fig­ures from China’s rich past to
exam­ine how Chi­nese soci­ety has evolved over the past 3,000
years.
   
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/china
   
(此地址为音频专辑的地址,有MP3,还有适合苹果的podcast版本,挺周到的)

    The Soong sis­ters: Women
of influ­ence in 20th Cen­tu­ry China(宋氏姐妹)
 
 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19910975

 
 
 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/china/china_20121012-1400a.mp3


 
 
 Li Bai and Du Fu:
Chi­na’s drunk­en super­star poets(李白和杜甫)

 
 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19884020

 
 
 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/china/china_20121011-1400b.mp3


 
 
 The Duke of Zhou: The
man who was Con­fu­cius’s hero(周公)

 
 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19821144

 
 
 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/china/china_20121010-1400a.mp3


 
 
 Kublai Khan: Chi­na’s
favourite barbarian(忽必烈)

 
 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19850234

 
 
 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/china/china_20121009-1400a.mp3


 
 
 Sima Qian: Chi­na’s
Great Historian(司马迁)

 
 
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19835484

 
 
 http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/china/china_20121009-1000c.mp3