中国复兴之路，一次持续两百年的长征

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黄安伟, 中国复兴之路，一次持续两百年的长征. July 19, 2013
http://cn.nytimes.com/culture/20130719/c19authors/

Quote:

"民族主义的近亲是'训政'的概念，它也由孙中山提出，指的是中国民众最终准备好进行自治之前必须经过的一个过程。的确，从晚清时期最早具有朦胧民主意识的思想家，到今天的许多政治理论家，中国的改革派人士经常求助于这个理念，即认为中国人在思想和政治经验上还不够成熟先进，不能赋予他们完全民主生活的权利和责任。

"虽然我们二人都花了多年时间来研究中国近现代史，但是我们都不是十分清楚应该怎样去理解它。我们在开始这个项目之前回顾了中国的近现代历史，它就像是一系列琐碎的独幕剧，涉及失败的改革、破碎的梦想、脱节的民族自我再造努力，或者无果而终的革命，放在一起不能形成任何连贯的东西。但是，随着我们开始阅读资料，我们吃惊地发现“富强”一词出现的频率非常之高。



, which is translated from

Edward Wong, Q and A: Orville Schell and John Delury on China’s Quest for Rejuvenation. New York Times, July 16, 2013 (in the blog Arts Beat).
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.co ... t-for-rejuvenation/

Quote:

"A close sibling of nationalism was the concept of 'tutelage,' another Sun Yat-sen contribution, that described the process Chinese people would need to undergo before finally becoming ready for self-government. Indeed, from the earliest, proto-democratic thinkers in the later Qing dynasty to many of today’s political theorists, Chinese reformers frequently have fallen back on this idea that their people are not yet sufficiently advanced in their thinking and political experience to be granted the rights and responsibilities of full democratic life.

"Even though we have both spent many years studying modern Chinese history, neither of us quite knew how to make sense out of it. As we surveyed China’s modern past before undertaking this project, it looked something like a series of miscellaneous one-act plays all involving failed reforms, broken dreams, disjointed efforts at national self-reinvention or dead-end revolutions that did not add up to anything coherent. But, as we began reading, we were taken aback by how often the term 'wealth and power' 富強 kept re-occurring.

Note:
(a) WEI Yuan  魏源
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Yuan
(1794-1857)
(b) tutelage (n; Latin tutela protection, guardian (from tutari to protect, frequentative of tueri to look at, guard) + English -age)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tutelage
(c) "If there is one verity that both Chinese and foreigners reformers and revolutionaries have all been forced to accept, it is that China changes only grudgingly."

verity (n)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verity
(d) LIANG Qichao’s "new citizen" 新民 and "destructivism" 破坏主义
(e) Schell states, "But I would hardly have eschewed a chance to talk with Mao about his view of modern Chinese history’s teleology and how he might have viewed it as being somehow different than that of the West.

teleology (n; Greek tele-, telos end, purpose)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teleology

I do not now what it means, because I know nothing about philosophy.
(f) "And, above all, China, which views itself as having been historically kicked around and bullied by other Great Powers, must strive not to succumb to the very understandable temptation – especially as it grows stronger — to put the shoe on the other foot and exercise dominance over lesser powers."
(i) the boot/shoe is on the other foot: "the situation is now the opposite of what it was, especially because someone who was weak now has power"
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus, undated.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ ... s-on-the-other-foot
(ii) Angela Russell, Popular Phrases: Origin and Meaning of the Shoe is on the Other Foot. Yahoo Voices, Feb 25, 2009
http://voices.yahoo.com/popular- ... hoe-is-2718085.html
("When shoes were made to fit specific feet, it would be uncomfortable to put the shoe on the wrong foot")