Chapter 85 to choose

In August 1949, Mao Zedong wrote five comments on the U.S. State Department’s White Paper on Sino-U.S. Relations and Secretary of State Acheson’s letter to President Truman, exposing the imperialist nature of U.S. policy toward China and criticizing some domestic bourgeois intellectuals. Molecular illusions about U.S. imperialism.Unfortunately, Qian Mu was named in the first comment. When Qian Mu received a letter of employment from Huaqiao University and decided to stay away temporarily, the founder of Jiangnan University and Wuxi businessman Rong Desheng advised him not to leave.Qian Mu admired Rong's character very much, even so, Qian Mu did not follow Rong Desheng's advice.Qian Jihou, the younger brother of Qian Jibo's twins, also advised Qian Mu not to leave.Qian Mu firmly refused.

In order to avoid controversy, Qian Mu only said that he would take the spring break to travel before leaving. In order to leave such an impression on everyone, his bed and books in the school were left intact.Manuscripts such as "Zhuangzi Compilation of Notes" and other manuscripts are also prepared to be sent by the students who live with them after they arrive in Hong Kong.Qian Mu Nandu didn't bring his wife and belt with him, so it's unknown whether it was because of the confidentiality of his actions. When Qian Mu passed by Shanghai, Xu Siyuan, a colleague from Jiangnan University and a fellow from Wuxi, knew that he was going to leave, and said, "It's good for you to escape for a while, and we will meet here again when the situation stabilizes in autumn."

When he arrived in Guangzhou, Qian Mu ran into his old friend Zhang Xiaofeng on the street. Zhang told him that he was going to set up a school in Hong Kong and that he had already made an appointment with Xie Youwei and Cui Shuqin.This chance meeting, Qian Mu probably never imagined that it was actually the beginning of his abandoning his wife and son, and leaving his hometown forever. After that, Qian Muxian went to Lingnan University to visit Chen Yinke and invited him to teach in Hong Kong, but was rejected.He went to the countryside to visit Xiong Shili again, but Shili had no intention of leaving the mainland.He also sent a letter to Liang Shuming in Chongqing to invite him to Hong Kong, but Liang did not reply.Then I went to Sun Yat-sen University to meet Yang Shuda, but Yang decided to leave Guangdong and return to Hunan.In desperation, Qian Mu moved back to Hong Kong with the Overseas Chinese University in the autumn of that year, with only his colleagues from the Overseas Chinese University Zhao Bing and his wife.

Qian Mu, who lived in Xiangjiang, failed to avoid political turmoil. Mao Zedong named and criticized Qian Mu, Hu Shi, and Fu Sinian in his article "Abandon Illusion, Prepare for Struggle" as "a very small number of people who can be controlled by imperialism and its lackeys." Qian Mu, as a Confucian who regarded traditional Chinese culture as his standard, was extremely repelled by the Marxist-Leninist theory that originated in Soviet Russia, so he left his hometown.But at the same time, he still has a deep love for the country. What he loves is the old country with a thousand-year civilization, not this new country.