Daily Productive Sharing 1015 - China's Hope
中国的希望在哪？这是方励之于1989年2月2日发表的文章，由林培瑞翻译。35年过去了，似乎还在原地转圈，甚至还有些退步：
1 China’s hope lies in the fact that more and more people have broken free from blind faith in the leadership.
2 The standard of comparison for measuring the success or failure of a society should be this: Has the distance between it and the most advanced societies of the world increased or decreased?
3 The facts clearly show that, among other countries and regions that began with similar cultural backgrounds, and at starting points comparable to China’s, nearly all have now joined or are about to join the ranks of the developed.
4 We must recognize that China’s overpopulation was due to Mao’s policy in the 1950s to oppose birth control as a “bourgeois Malthusian doctrine” and encourage rapid population growth.
5 The new emphasis on economics in domestic policy and the cessation of “exporting revolution” in foreign policy are both important examples of progress.
6 Chinese education, which for years suffered the ravages of Mao Zedong’s anti-intellectual, anticultural political principles, has left China with a population in which the proportion of illiterates remains about what it was forty years ago.
7 When it comes to one of the major causes of instability in Chinese society today—the continuing state of civil war with Taiwan—this supreme principle somehow ceases to apply.
8 Yet it is precisely because democracy is generated from below that—despite the many frustrations and disappointments in our present situation—I still view our future with hope.
如果你喜欢的话，不妨转发给身边的朋友 ⬇️
https://letters.acacess.com/daily-productive-sharing-1015/
中国的希望在哪？这是方励之于1989年2月2日发表的文章，由林培瑞翻译。35年过去了，似乎还在原地转圈，甚至还有些退步：
1 China’s hope lies in the fact that more and more people have broken free from blind faith in the leadership.
2 The standard of comparison for measuring the success or failure of a society should be this: Has the distance between it and the most advanced societies of the world increased or decreased?
3 The facts clearly show that, among other countries and regions that began with similar cultural backgrounds, and at starting points comparable to China’s, nearly all have now joined or are about to join the ranks of the developed.
4 We must recognize that China’s overpopulation was due to Mao’s policy in the 1950s to oppose birth control as a “bourgeois Malthusian doctrine” and encourage rapid population growth.
5 The new emphasis on economics in domestic policy and the cessation of “exporting revolution” in foreign policy are both important examples of progress.
6 Chinese education, which for years suffered the ravages of Mao Zedong’s anti-intellectual, anticultural political principles, has left China with a population in which the proportion of illiterates remains about what it was forty years ago.
7 When it comes to one of the major causes of instability in Chinese society today—the continuing state of civil war with Taiwan—this supreme principle somehow ceases to apply.
8 Yet it is precisely because democracy is generated from below that—despite the many frustrations and disappointments in our present situation—I still view our future with hope.
如果你喜欢的话，不妨转发给身边的朋友 ⬇️
https://letters.acacess.com/daily-productive-sharing-1015/