Chapter 30 Song Xiao

Before George Bernard Shaw [2] arrived in China, the "Evening Post" hoped that Japan's military operations in North China would be temporarily suspended because of this, calling it the "Peaceful Old Man" [3].After George Bernard Shaw arrived in Hong Kong, various newspapers translated his talk to the young people by "Reuter Telegraph"[4] and titled it "Propaganda for Communism". George Bernard Shaw said to a Reuters interviewer that you are not like a Chinese. Shaw also thought that no one in the Chinese newspaper circle interviewed him, and asked, are they so naive that they don’t know much about them?” (Reuters, 11th)

In fact, we are experienced. We know very well the benevolent government of the Governor of Hong Kong, the regulations of the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Industry, who is relatives and friends, who is an enemy, whose wife’s birthday is on which day, and who loves to eat. What is it.But for Xiao,—unfortunately, there are only three or four translations of his works. Therefore, we cannot understand his thoughts before and after the European War, nor can we deeply understand his thoughts after he traveled to the Soviet Union.But only on the 14th Hong Kong "Reuters" said to the students at the University of Hong Kong, "If you are not a red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you will become an impossible dead stone at the age of fifty. If you become a red revolutionist at the age of twenty, then you will have a chance not to fall behind at the age of forty", then you will know his greatness.

But what I mean by greatness is not that he wants people to become red revolutionaries, because we have "special national conditions" [6], there is no need to be red, as long as you become a revolutionist today, you will lose your life tomorrow, and there is no way to reach the age of forty.What I call greatness is that he actually thought of the time when we were 40 or 50 years old for our 20-year-old youth, and he did not leave the present. Rich people will move their property into foreign banks, fly off the ground in China, or think about tomorrow; Don't think about it, don't dare to think about it.

What's more, twenty or thirty years from now?This question is very common, yet great. The reason for this is George Bernard Shaw! February 15th.