纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Welcome to Dalifornia an Oasis for Chinas Drifters and Dreamers
February 5, 2024 2 min 300 words
这篇报道深刻地描绘了“Dalifornia”成为中国漂泊者和梦想家的绿洲的现象。作者生动地展示了这一现象的多重层面，从留学生到创业者，都在这片土地上追逐着各自的梦想。然而，报道也暗示着这种现象的背后可能存在一些深层次的问题，如文化融合和身份认同。或许，Dalifornia不仅是一个梦想的追逐之地，更是一个反映中国新一代在全球化浪潮中所面临挑战和机遇的缩影。这篇报道引人深思，对于理解当代中国人在海外的生存状态提供了新的视角，但也应当审慎看待其中可能存在的复杂性和挑战。
To find the dance circle in the bed-and-breakfast’s courtyard, drive north from the bedsheet factory converted into a crafts market, toward the vegan canteen urging diners to “walk barefoot in the soil and bathe in the sunshine.” If you see the unmanned craft beer bar where customers pay on the honor system, you’ve gone too far.
Welcome to the Chinese mountain city of Dali, also sometimes known as Dalifornia, an oasis for China’s disaffected, drifting or just plain curious.
The city’s nickname is a homage to California, and the easy-living, tree-hugging, sun-soaked stereotypes it evokes. It is also a nod to the influx of tech employees who have flocked there since the rise of remote work during the pandemic, to code amid the picturesque surroundings, nestled between snow-capped, 10,000-foot peaks in southwest China, on the shores of glistening Erhai Lake.
The area has long been a hub for backpackers and artists, who were lured by its cheap rents and idyllic old town, where ancient city gates and white-walled courtyard homes point to the history of the Bai ethnic minority, who have lived there for thousands of years.