对比与巧合，新闻与旧识，凝视与思考，语言，艺术，社会，科学，美景，风俗习惯。在华旅居35年的作者一步一步地发现了一个又一个奇迹，与读者们一起分享他在中国的所见所闻。
Since China's tidal wave of Reform and Opening reached Shanghai in the early 1990s, the city has developed at a pace that has astounded observers and broken all historical precedent. Yet on December 3, 2002, an event occurred that accelerated developments to a new pitch of feverish activity: Shanghai won its bid to host the 2010 World Expo, at the 132nd general assembly of the Bureau of International Exhibitions (BIE), held in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The future shifted,and the city went wild.
弗雷德·马克斯，1924年生于德国一个犹太家庭，1939年跟随父亲从纳粹德国逃至中国上海，在上海生活了十年之后移民美国，后成为一位著名犹太教育者。在上海生活的十年间，他坚持每天用德语写日记，无比翔实地记录了那一段动荡、艰难的岁月。本书由加州中国犹太人学会的公共事务官员Rena Krasno根据弗雷德·马克斯1939—1949十年间的日记撰写而成。 作者简介： Rena Krasno was born in Shanghai, China, in 1923 and lived there until 1949. Her parents, stateless Russian Jews from Siberia, arrived in China in the early 20th century. In her professional life, Krasno worked as a simultaneous freelance interpreter for international organizations in Europe and Asia. Krasno has lectured at Stanford University, U.C.L.A., U.C. Berkeley, the Commonwealth Club, and other well-known institutions in America, Asia, and Europe. She is currently Public Affairs Officer of the Sino-Judaic Institute
《追踪中国:当代中国》是一本以反映当下中国现实生活为题材的书。《追踪中国:当代中国》分为三个部分：社会热点问题、文化生活和乡村故事。《追踪中国:当代中国》是由《中国日报》已发表的作品汇集而成，其内容角度独特、观点深刻，满足了国外读者渴求更多了解普通中国人生活的愿望，起到了扩大对外宣传的效果。
ManyguidebookshaveappearedinChinesededicatedtoHangzhou,thecityofHeavendescribedbyMarcoPolo.now,addedtothoseisHangzhou,thefirstEnglishguidebookofitskindinchina.Thiookhasfieoutstandingfeatures.作者简介：ChenGangwaornandeducatedinHangzhou,Todate,heistheonlyTourGuideExtraordinaireinEastChina'sZhjiangProvince,andtheonlyprofessorinJanuary1982fromtheEnglishLanguageandLiteratrreDepartmentofZhejiangUniversity,hebegantoserveasanEngling-speakingguideinterpreter,andlaterasmanaeroftheEuroAmericanDepartmentofchinaTravelservie,heisauthorofWestLakePoerics,chieftranslatorofATriptoMountainsandRiversinZhejingprovince,oneothefewoficialtranslatorsoftheMacmillanEncyclopedia,andthesesoncoupletshavebeenfeatrredinnationalandprovincialacademicpubliations.
