Chapter 21 Chapter Eleven On America

The reason why I became a detached and independent critic began when I wrote for the "Little Critic" column (Little Critic) of the English publication "China Review". I was neither a member of the Kuomintang, nor did I support Mr. The criticism written was harsh and merciless.I dare to write what cautious critics dare not say to please everyone.At the same time, I have created a style whose secret is to make the reader a confidant, to speak the truth to him, just as he would speak freely to an old friend.All the books I have written have this characteristic, their own magic.This style brings the reader closer to himself.

I have a habit of speaking up when the time demands it.In the 19th year of the Republic of China, the Crown Prince of Denmark will visit Nanjing.There was a neighborhood of shabby houses where the poor lived, and the guest of honor had to pass through there.In a hurry, Mayor Liu of Nanjing wanted to demolish those dilapidated houses, otherwise they would surround them, but not provide shelter for the poor peasants elsewhere. In this way, the distinguished guests, like gods, rode a breeze all the way to the magnificent high-rise buildings in Nanjing Building up.No one cares about this matter, and no one pays attention to it.In the "China Review", I appealed to everyone to think of the suffering of the poor in the cold wind and rain.This article offended the organization that gave the magazine a subsidy at the time, and I blamed me for daring to expose its benevolent and benevolent policies.The manager of this publication (K.P.Chu) immediately took the overnight train to apologize, and promised to be a good citizen in the future, with the national interest as the premise.

If this is compared to the massacre of students by the Beiyang government on March 18, 15th year of the Republic of China, it is insignificant.After the Duan Qirui administration in Beiyang allowed the demonstrators to enter the gate of the administration in Beijing's Iron Lion Hutong, Zhang Shizhao, the then chief of education, ordered the guards of the administration to beat the students to the ground with seven-section steel whips. I was there.The casualties from various schools were transported away in rickshaws, their heads and bodies stained with blood. A series of rickshaws lined up on Dongzhimen Street. When I went to the scene as the provost of the Women's Normal University, I saw two coffins filled with blood. Those are two students from our school.The Beiyang government is really thoughtful, and it has not forgotten to prepare the coffins for the students they killed in advance.This kind of cruel action is enough to cause riots in any city in the United States.The next day, at the meeting of the presidents of nine university colleges, five presidents agreed to support the Beiyang government authorities, and four intended to protest the government in a moderate manner.

Because the nine colleges and universities receive funding from the Beiyang government, it is not appropriate to protest. Some people infer this, and I don't know if it is a reason.When I encountered this situation, I spoke unscrupulously in "Yusi". The English-language magazine "China Review" got Pearl Buck's attention.When she and Richard J. Walsh traveled the world, she urged me to write my first book, which became an instant bestseller in the United States and established a My place in the minds of American readers.The book became the first on the best-seller list in the United States, and its status can be described as unprecedented. The New Yorker, edited by Clifton Fadiman, hastened to apologize to readers for being late in commenting on this book.In later editions, I canceled the serious discussion on the Chinese issue and changed it to comment on the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, which is extremely needed by readers.

... At that time, I was the only one who served Mr. Chiang Kai-shek in the anti-communist battle.I was hoarse at the time.It was the period of "Davis and Sorvice" and Stilwell.When Stilwell came to China, it was like going to India to fight an Indian chief.Stilwell was rough and arrogant.When he asked to control the manpower in Hunan and acted as the super commander himself, it really exceeded his authority.Chairman Chiang asked the U.S. government to replace him. With the backing of American power, Stilwell was like a tyrant. He did not come to help China, but to destroy the unity of China and the United States.He left all the guns and ammunition for the Communist Party.Had he performed his duties effectively, like President Roosevelt sent tankers to Cairo to aid Montgomery, the result would have been very different, wouldn't it?Of course he has his reasons - based on his views on democracy.In any case, I am deeply indignant at the attempt by an envoy of one country to interfere in the internal affairs of another.The US CIA disapproved of South Korea's President Syngman Rhee and overthrew him based on the so-called "democracy" in the US.The US Central Intelligence Agency disapproved of Ngo Dinh Diem in Vietnam, and overthrew him based on the so-called American-style "democracy".The CIA overthrew the Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem and attempted to kill Ngo Dinh Diem and his party.The result is obvious to all.It was also Stilwell's duty to help the Chinese Communist Party, according to what he called American-style "democracy." ...In any case, the person the United States sends to China should be a diplomat, not a rough farmer, but someone who the Chinese consider to be a gentleman.

In the 33rd year of the Republic of China, I asked He Yingqin, Minister of Military and Political Affairs, what Stilwell had given China in the past few years. His answer was that there were only enough bullets to equip a division.In the 33rd year of the Republic of China, I saw Chinese donkeys carrying precious oil from the oil fields in Yuquan, Gansu, northwest China, to Kunming, southwest China. I really wanted to cry for China.He Yingqin was angry, and I felt the same way. Stilwell's foreign policy was only in favor of limiting the "Davis and Service" report to strong praise for the Chinese Communist Party.Senator Judd told me that he had been to China, and he brought back five reports, all of which were beneficial to the Chinese Communist Party, but none of which were beneficial to Mr. Jiang. He showed these documents to the US embassy.People in the embassy only extend a friendly hand to the friends of the Communist Party.Under such circumstances, Mr. Jiang completed the Burma Road within one year, which the US government estimated would take three years to complete.When Brooks Atkinson (Brooks Atkinson) returned to the United States with Stilwell, he even declared that Mr. Chiang was not interested in fighting the Japanese, but only interested in fighting the Communist Party.

This is the first mistake.The second most serious mistake was that Soviet Russia entered the war three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and the Chinese Communists attempted to enter the Northeast to receive the spoils left by Japan in the Northeast.The Central Army closed Zhangjiakou, the gateway to the northeast.At that time, there was a cease-fire agreement between the central government forces and the Communist forces.Marshall ordered the central government troops to retreat from Zhangjiakou.Since then, the way for the Communist army to enter the Northeast has been smooth.The difference in this step will have too much impact on the future.When the communist troops went there, they brought large-caliber short guns, but later they had brand-new cannons for attack.Marshall simply gave the opportunity to concentrate the Communist forces.General Marshall was distraught by the war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and returned home in a desperate situation. He hoped that a new third force would emerge in China to lead China.He was as innocent as a child to think it was possible.He originally hoped to mix the armies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party into one, but he didn't know that the central government had incorporated the Communist Army into the government army for several years to fight together, so he had the new designation "Eighteenth Route Army".

There is a slanderous rumor circulating among those who sympathize with the Communist Party.The books I wrote have always been successful and bestsellers, but when my book "The Vigilofa Nation" (The VigilofaNation) was published in the 33rd year of the Republic of China, the situation changed.Liberals have a sudden cold shoulder for me.It is rumored that He Yingqin paid me 20,000 US dollars.The rumor is that I heard Pearl Buck, J. J． Singh and Smedley said it.At the New York City Hall rally, Smedley mentioned this in front of the public, and I immediately confronted her and asked her to speak publicly again.Foreman traveled to Yunnan for three months, so he claimed to be a China hand.He asked me, "Mr. Lin, have you ever been to Yunnan?" I said, "No. But the Communist Party has been in China all these years, and I have been dealing with them all these years. I remember what they did in Changsha." At the meeting, Smedley deliberately did not mention this matter.I dare say that during those years when I was in the chamberlain of the Chairman of the Generalissimo, I was just a name, and I didn't get a penny from the central government; it was just for the convenience of getting a passport.

I roamed in free China and returned to the United States. I naturally understood the situation at that time.As soon as I went back, I said on the radio: "The group of people in Chongqing now is the same group of people in Nanjing before. They are fighting for a modern China." The next day, I received a stern warning from my publisher, Richard J. Walsh, telling me that I could and should not say anything like that again.It is conceivable that I was in a disadvantageous environment at that time.I just saw it as a lost battle, I was just a wounded soldier in the field, and I didn't take it very seriously.

A few outstanding writers of our time are: Thomas Mann.After he came back from Geneva, I met him at the International PEN in New York.He spoke English, and his English was a complex German structure, which he could not hear or understand.There was Eve Curie and a few others, and we were all on the speaker's stage.I'm talking about the eunuch Wei Zhongxian of the Ming Dynasty. When he was alive, the counties set up shrines for him.On the table with Pearl Buck, a guest asked me, "What is a eunuch?" I also met with Carlvan Doren several times and he was very kind to me.His wife Irita, who later became friends with Wendell Wilkie, and his brother Mark VanDoren (professor at Columbia University), are very good friends of mine.I like the lively, cheerful and elegant scholar Irwin Ed-man the most. He is an American philosopher and his English is extremely concise.He collected some long gramophone films, which was his amateur hobby.

Russell, in spite of his advanced age, was alert and quick, with a bright eye.I remember meeting him at a friend's apartment.Unfortunately, he married a lady from Philadelphia, USA (probably his third, maybe fourth) who was too proud of her "Sir Russell" to show off from time to time .Whenever she talks, she does it alone.Many friends were willing to ask Russell questions, and the lady interrupted to answer.Everyone was interested in hearing Russell talk, nobody liked listening to her.So when friends meet, everyone is disappointed. It is also new to meet J.P. Sartre in Mrs. Knopf Sartre's apartment.Sartre sat in a chair and we all sat on the floor.We all take it easy.He speaks English very well.His diction is extremely precise, sharp and moving, but sometimes he doesn't match his words.I can imagine him on Raspail Boulevard, drinking coffee and chatting with many "self-conscious ontological" ladies who admire him.These self-conscious existentialists started the no-lipstick, no-powder fad.This fashion was later adopted by sightseeing hippie tourists and became a feature of modern American culture.They thought it better to lie on your back, or prostrate on the ground, in Florence (Horence) or in Rome, and block the way to the cathedral, so that no one can pass. Sartre denied that life has any meaning, but insisted that it is up to us to decide why we live and for what purpose.Nor is his claim entirely negative. I wrote and published mine (My Country and My People) thanks to Pearl Buck and her husband, Richard Walsher, and to them for the promotion and sales of this book.We often visit them at their home in Pennsylvania.My wife Cuifeng often talked with Pearl Buck in Mandarin, telling her about China's past.When Pearl Buck translated into English, she did not look at the original book, but listened to others read it to her, and she translated it while listening. I admire this translation method very much.It's like the situation when Lin Qinnan did not understand English and translated Sigold's "Saxon Heroes" and "Arabian Nights".Pearl Buck was very interested in adopting children born to American fathers and Korean mothers, and later adopted Indian babies.She has a farm with cattle.Adopting a baby is linked to income tax deduction. Pearl Buck knew Chinese and spoke it fluently. Her father was a missionary in China. She lived in China with her father Knickerbocker, first in Anhui and then in Nanjing. She grew up in China.Later she married Professor Lossing Buck, so she still has a good understanding of Chinese people and Chinese customs.But I invented the Chinese typewriter, which cost me more than 100,000 U.S. dollars, and I am so poor that I don’t have a penny.I had to borrow money to survive. At that time, I saw the change of human feelings and the change of the world.People are not so polite to me.In that case, I saw through an American.Later, when I was going to become the president of Nanyang University, I sent a telegram to Pearl Buck's husband, telling him that I would leave the United States to take up a new job.He wouldn't even bother to return a telegram.The friendship between the two of us can be said to be exhausted.I decided to call it quits.That was after I published the Anti-Japanese War travelogue "The Vgilofa Nation".Pearl Buck's husband was publishing my book (VermilionGate) when PrenticeHall Publishing Company approached me and said they would publish anything I wrote.I broke off a twenty-year friendship and wrote the novel The Unexpected Island, which surprised everyone.When I publish books in foreign countries, John Day Publishing Company usually keeps 50%, but with the help of my friends Hank Holzer and his wife, I took all the rights back.Pearl Buck went to see me once, mainly to see how I lived, and our friendship never recovered. Pearl Buck was eager to connect with the Communist Party so that she could "advance" with others. She had never been to Taiwan, and I don't think Taiwan would welcome her either.In 1972, she wanted to get a passport to go to mainland China to see China under the Communist rule.But the communist regime, knowing that she would learn too much about mainland China if she talked to Chinese farmers, refused her to go.She died shortly thereafter.After all, Pearl Buck maintained a neutral attitude, she was not a member of the Communist Party.