Chapter 39 From an outstanding international student of Moscow University to a low-level person in society

Professor Jiang Ping is from Ningbo, Zhejiang. His father worked in the Dalian Branch of the Bank of China in the early years of the Republic of China. Jiang Ping was born in Dalian in 1930. After the "July 7th Incident" in 1937, Jiang Ping went to Shanghai with his parents. One year later, he came to Peiping with his father who was transferred to work in the Bank of China's Beiping Branch during the Republic of China. Jiang Ping has 6 brothers and sisters, and he is the fifth eldest.Smart and eager to learn since he was a child, he moved with his parents several times, and his vision is quite broad. He is the most mischievous and smartest among his brothers and sisters.He spent his junior high school at the then Beiping Art Middle School, and his high school at the famous Chongde Middle School.

Chongde Middle School (now Beijing No. 31 Middle School) is an Anglican school. In 1910, the British Anglican Mission Society allocated 1,000 pounds to build the school building of Chongde Middle School on the basis of an ancient temple in Rongxian Hutong, Xicheng. In 1939, due to Japan's anti-British, the school was forced to close down. In the spring of 1940, Leighton Stuart, the president of Yenching University, moved the old team of Chongde to Weixiu Garden, Haidian, and established the high school of Yenching University.The Pacific War broke out in the second year, and Yanda University and Senior High School were closed by Japanese soldiers at the same time.It was not until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in August 1945 that Chongde was resumed.Jiang Ping entered the school after Chongde was reinstated.This well-known middle school not only trained legal masters such as Jiang Ping, but also trained world-renowned personalities such as the famous scientist Yang Zhenning, the "father of the two bombs" Deng Jiaxian, and the Taiwanese writer Zheng Chouyu.

In 1948, Jiang Ping, who had always dreamed of being a reporter, was admitted to the Journalism Department of Yenching University.Yenching University is also a private Christian school.The bases of Christian churches are mainly the United States and Canada, mainly in the United States. There is a "China Christian University Board of Directors" in New York and a "Chinese Christian Education Association" in Shanghai. Most of the time, Christian churches supported 16 universities. By 1945 After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, several schools remained.Yenching University is one of them. It is also the largest and best-run university, with the most graduates and the greatest political and international cultural influence.

After Jiang Ping entered Yenching University, he was active everywhere because of his enthusiasm for journalism. In 1949 he was forced to drop out of school because he joined the Democratic Youth League, which was resisting the regime at the time.After the liberation of Peiping, he participated in the work of the Preparatory Committee of the Peking City Youth League Committee. In 1951, the newly established New China was in dire straits and was in urgent need of talents in various fields. Therefore, the country sent the first batch of about eleven or two students with both ability and political integrity to study in the Soviet Union, and Jiang Ping was one of them.He studied abroad at the Faculty of Law of Kazan University, which was Lenin's alma mater and had a great reputation in the Soviet Union. In 1953, Jiang Ping transferred from Kazan University to the Faculty of Law of Moscow University to continue his studies.He is smart and eager to learn, and he is excellent in every subject, becoming an idol among overseas students.

During his study abroad, he also participated in the work of the Chinese Student Union, and had many contacts with Gorbachev, who also studied in the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University and served as a member of the Student Youth League Committee. In 1955, Jiang Ping, Song Jian and others were selected as representatives of students studying in the Soviet Union to participate in the World Youth Festival in Warsaw, Poland.There were more than 200 people in the Chinese delegation participating in the festival. The head of the delegation was Luo Yi, and the deputy heads were Wu Xueqian, Ma Shaobo and others.At that time, Song Jian was studying automatic control at the Bowman Institute of Advanced Engineering in Moscow. Before going abroad, he had studied at Harbin Institute of Technology, and his Russian was very good.Because of his excellent academic performance in the Soviet Union, he was recommended by the school and approved by the country to become a postgraduate student, and at the same time he took on a teaching task in the school.After more than two years of research, I wrote a high-level associate doctoral thesis.The school also proposed that a further period of time should be extended and a doctorate degree could be obtained by slightly revising the dissertation.Since Sino-Soviet relations had deteriorated publicly and his major was urgently needed in China, Song Jian decided to give up his doctorate and return to work immediately.After the normalization of Sino-Soviet relations, the Soviet Union took the initiative to award Song Jian a doctorate.

In the same year when he went to Warsaw, Jiang Ping and Chen Hanzhang (later a researcher at the Institute of Law of the Academy of Social Sciences) worked as Russian interpreters for the Chinese judicial delegation led by Minister of Justice Shi Liang. Jiang Ping graduated one year ahead of schedule due to his outstanding grades. In 1956, he made a speech as a representative of Moscow University's foreign students at the graduation ceremony, which caused a sensation on the entire campus. After completing his studies, Jiang Ping was assigned to teach in the Civil Law Department of Beijing University of Political Science and Law.However, what he didn't expect was that bad luck came to him in the second year.

China in 1957 was in great pain.Jiang Ping became the first group of "rightists" because he said something that should not have been said at the time, and was exiled. It was also in this year that his wife who had been with him was forced to divorce him under the intervention of the organization, and the good family broke up. Also in this year, when he was reforming in Shanxi, when he was carrying the steel wire across the railroad tracks with fellow sufferers, he was physically and mentally exhausted and in a trance. one of his legs. 1957 was the most difficult time in his life. He survived the heavy ordeal in his life relying on his tenacious perseverance and will.Afterwards, he said in a conversation, I can say that I recovered a life from under the train wheels, which made me feel that I should have an optimistic attitude towards life.

In 1972, the Beijing Institute of Political Science and Law was disbanded, and Jiang Ping was "assigned" to work in rural Anhui. Later, after many twists and turns, he was transferred to teach in Yanqing Middle School, and his life improved.At this time, he also reorganized his family and had a son and a daughter.