2015考研英语阅读亚洲的兴衰_大学英语阅读

2015考研英语阅读亚洲的兴衰

　　The result is a lively mix of scholarship, reporting and polemic. Its heart is a historicalaccount of how smallholder farming, export-led manufacturing and financial repression tookroot in Asias miracle economies, such as Japan and Taiwan, but failed to bed down in thePhilippines and Indonesia. This is punctuated by travelogues, describing Asias landscape ofeconomic triumph and tribulation, from the kitsch houses of rice farmers in Japans Niigataprefecture, who have great agricultural know-how but little architectural taste, to theunfinished towers of Jakartas Bank Alley, their growth stunted by the Asian financial crisis.

　　最终，Studwell 把学术研究、调查报道以及书面论战生动地糅为一体。在一些创造奇迹的亚洲经济体中，小农耕作、由出口带动的制造业以及金融抑制政策是如何植根的?在菲律宾和印度尼西亚，同样的措施又为何没有形成气候?本书重点从历史角度论述了这些问题。书中还穿插了一些游记见闻，描述了亚洲大地上经济繁荣或是衰颓的景象：Studwell 写到了日本新泻县稻农的简陋住所这些农民有高超的农业技术，却不懂什么建筑美学;也写到了雅加达岸巷里尚未建成的塔楼由于亚洲金融危机，这些塔楼迟迟未能完工。

　　The most impressive part of the book is the 68 pages of footnotes in which Mr Studwell dipsinto his trove of reading and reporting. He includes observations on Javanese chickens, thesex life of a Korean chaebol-founder, the constitutional rules that Meiji-era Japan copiedfrom Prussia and his exchanges with Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysias former strongman.