中文名叫“何伟”的彼得·海斯勒一直在用自己的方式审视中国,近年来先后有《江城》和《寻路中国》在中国出版,引起较大反响。与前两本更专注于中国变革时代稍有不同,这本《奇石》的故事时间界限起于2000年止于2012年。在这12年里,中国经过15年马拉松终于加入世贸组织后,经济进入飞速发展新阶段,先后将德国、日本等经济强国甩在身后。这12年里何伟还有很多重大事件没忘书写,比如中国有史以来第一次成功举办了奥林匹克运动会。也是在这一 Peter Heisler, whose Chinese name is He Wei, has been examining China in its own way. In recent years, there have been “Jiang Cheng” and “Pathfinder China” publishing in China, arousing great repercussions. Much different from the previous two, which focused more on the era of change in China, the time bound for this story of Kistler dates from 2000 to 2012. In these 12 years, after China finally joined the WTO in 15 years of marathon, the economy has entered a new stage of rapid development. It has left economically powerful countries such as Germany and Japan behind. During these 12 years, there were a lot of major events that He Wei has not forgotten to write, for example, China successfully held the Olympic Games for the first time in history. Also in this one