＇Apart from its striking coat, there is very little that is black and white about the giant panda,＇ states science writer Henry Nicholls starkly in The Way of the Panda. The author, winner of the UK＇s prestigious R...＇Apart from its striking coat, there is very little that is black and white about the giant panda,＇ states science writer Henry Nicholls starkly in The Way of the Panda. The author, winner of the UK＇s prestigious Royal Society Prize for Science Books for his 2006 study Lonesome George （about a giant tortoise in the Galapagos Islands thought to be the sole surviving member of his subspecies）,展开更多
It is hard now to think of a time when dining out in Shanghai meant visiting state-run restaurants, where menus remained static and survival did not necessarily rely on customers.
You frame the history of the panda alongside the growth of modern China. Why do you marry the two together？ The book follows how the panda became China＇s national treasure, so it is no surprise to me that what happe...You frame the history of the panda alongside the growth of modern China. Why do you marry the two together？ The book follows how the panda became China＇s national treasure, so it is no surprise to me that what happened to the panda, particularly since the 1960s, tracks China＇s journey to its current position in the world.展开更多
文摘＇Apart from its striking coat, there is very little that is black and white about the giant panda,＇ states science writer Henry Nicholls starkly in The Way of the Panda. The author, winner of the UK＇s prestigious Royal Society Prize for Science Books for his 2006 study Lonesome George （about a giant tortoise in the Galapagos Islands thought to be the sole surviving member of his subspecies）,
文摘It is hard now to think of a time when dining out in Shanghai meant visiting state-run restaurants, where menus remained static and survival did not necessarily rely on customers.
文摘You frame the history of the panda alongside the growth of modern China. Why do you marry the two together？ The book follows how the panda became China＇s national treasure, so it is no surprise to me that what happened to the panda, particularly since the 1960s, tracks China＇s journey to its current position in the world.
