《TIME》刊登的文章，最愛看的是有關中國的報道。

原因有二：

一、用英文寫中國的人和事，許多中國特色的詞出口(譯成英文)轉內銷(在我腦里譯回、對應回中文)，常常愣住：這什么jargon啊？然后恍然大悟：原來是這個詞啊！不由又大樂。如同在平滑的路上踩自行車，輪子不時壓到石子，“嘎蹦嘎蹦”地彈跳，雖然累，是一件非常非常有趣的事兒。

舉例：
Red Guard
Barefoot Doctor
Great Helmsman

還有這個 “Silk Alley”，不明，看下去：Silk Alley in Beijing was probably the world’s most infamous market for fake consumer goods..….終於猜出來了，秀水街啊！

二、除了可以獲得和官方報道相背馳的“小道”消息外，還可以了解西人怎么看中國、中國人，西人描寫的，尺度、角度就是不一樣。

因此，每期來，總是挑這類文章看一二篇，就擱下了。有時想想自己也蠻神經病的，學英文也只為了更好地、更多地閱讀有關中國的文章，迷戀中國迷戀到如此地步。

這一期，June 13, 2005，有一篇：’Taking Aim at M’。介紹一本Jung Chang和Jon Halliday寫的書。不知道Jung Chang是誰，据介紹寫了一本很火的書《Wild Swans》。看了介紹更糟，更加迷茫，除了要查出她是誰，還得查查這是一本什么書(添多一樣東西要查)。

Anyway, 這本關於M的新書，我也不說啥了，原文抄幾段《TIME》介紹的文字。

M didn’t fight the Japanese during World War II, according to Chang and Halliday, but instead welcomed their invasion of the mainland. He and Stalin planned to divide china with Japan; M would end up running a Soviet puppet state much smaller than today’s People’s Republic. (大吃一惊，作者不知基於什么證据，這么說呢？)

To fund the Red Army in the early 1940s, M grew opium, bringing in as much as $60 million a year. He stopped after over-production drove down the price and P officials-though not M-decided the practice was unseemly. (誰還說他不會搞經濟？)

M made a fortune in royalties from his writings, which Chinese were forced to read while other authors’ works were suppressed. According to Chang and Halliday:“M was the only millionaire created in M’s China.”(這二位作者真的很摳門，很小家子氣。整個國家都是人家的，還在計較這些。)

Chang and Halliday also connect few dots. While 38 million Chinese were starving to death during 1958-61, much of the grain they produced was being shipped to the Soviet Union, where it accounted for two-thirds of all food imports. It was a weapons-technology-for-food program, a demonic bargain to make China a military superpower even at the cost of its own citizen’s live. “Half of china may well have to die,” M said of this deal to his inner circle in 1958, according to P documents. China’s acquisition of the atom bomb, the authors calculate, “caused 100 times as many deaths as the ones dropped by the U.S. on Japan.”(污蔑啊！赤裸裸的污蔑！)

閱畢本密函，請就燭火燃、燒毁，方可離去。切切！ 500){this.width = 500;}” onerror=”this.src=’http://image2.sina.com.cn/blog/tmpl/v3/images/picError.gif’” />

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   15:23
   10月 30th, 2008
   
   

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