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发帖数: 2796 | 1 Daily Kos 上面这位老兄有新分析，很专业。
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Ping Fu's time travel machine
Ping Fu's new book, Bend, not Break: A Life in Two Worlds, stirred a huge
controversy because of its conflicting and sometimes nonsensical description
of her life in China. In the face of mounting criticism, she has insisted
that all of the inconsistencies were the faults of the reporters and news
media who used the words such as "labor camp" and "child soldier" which
distorted the meaning of her book. She urged people to read her book to see
that she did not lie about her life in China.
So now I am going to read for you a few excerpts from her book and let you
see for your own eyes what a liar she is.
What characterizes Fu's autobiography is the incredible out of place, out of
time feeling one gets for anyone who had experienced China during the
periods covered in her book. In other words, what Fu described in her book
is a China that no Chinese would recognize. She transplanted stories from
other places or other time periods into her story. She must have a time
travel machine.
Let us look at her college years to begin our analysis.
She stated that towards the end of her second year in college, which would
be the end of 1979, she joined a student club called "Red Maple Society"
which published something that got into trouble with Deng Xiaoping himself (
an incredible story already, but let's suspend our disbelief for now and see
what happened). On page 251:
The government decided at the last minute to ban the gathering of the
ten universities, deeming it illegal. Instead, it was announced that china's
de facto leader, Deng Xiaoping, would receive the representatives for a
private meeting.
This was when things went terribly wrong.
After the unsuccessful meeting in Beijing, news went to Suzhou, and her club
and herself got punished by university officials (page 252):
The Red maple society was deemed an illegal underground society
responsible for publishing anti-Communist propaganda. University officials
arrested and interrogated all the students who belonged to our magazine
group. For weeks, they pressed us to confess our counterrevolutionary
activities.
After going through all the repercussions of the this unfortunate turn of
event, Fu continued on page 253:
For the rest of the semester, I endured relentless criticism by
Communist Party officials and never-ending confession sessions.
What's wrong with this scene? Well, this was 1980 by now. And 1980's China
was not like this at all. What Fu is describing is more like 1970 than 1980.
1980 was the year that Deng finally took control of the power in China,
squeezing out the former party boss Hua Guofeng. Deng did this with the help
of democratic forces in China. Although by 1979 he already started to
crackdown on the democratic advocates and arrested Wei Jingsheng, he still
left college campuses largely alone. And that year he rewarded the
democratic forces with the first and only (partially) democratic election in
China. I know because I was there. I was on the campus of Peking University
in 1980, and was really excited to see people like Hu Ping and Wang Juntao
(both are now dissidents living in New York) to campaign openly on campus
against party endorsed candidates. At the end Hu Ping won the election in
our district. In my view, the election of 1980 was the biggest thing that
happened in China during my college years. Yet during this period Ms. Fu was
having a 1970's flashback at Suzhou University.
Then her story went from strange to bizarre. She talked about how university
officials would check all female students to see whether they had their
periods to make sure that they were not pregnant:
At our school, officials would confirm that all female students were
menstruating each month by checking their sanitary napkins. When they
discovered that some women were cheating by bringing in their friends'
soiled pads, the officials began inserting their fingers into our vaginas to
check for blood.
In a culture that viewed women's virginity before marriage as paramount, any
official who dared to do this would immediately lose her job. In reality,
the way the university officials controlled students at that time, was by
not allowing marriage, sex, or even any contacts between male and female
students at all. We lived in separate dorm buildings. The dorm buildings for
female students always had ugly old ladies as guards. The gates were locked
during the night. They did not need to check for pregnancies because they
already controlled everything else. Ping Fu did not seem to have lived in
China in the 1980s.
Then there was this kidnapping that came right out of a 007 spy movie (page
255):
One day in the fall of 1982, as I innocently walked across campus making
preparations for graduation, someone sneaked up behind me, jammed a black
canvas bag over my head, and bounded my wrists together tightly. "Don't
scream," a menacing male voice whispered as I was escorted into a nearby car.
There are so many things wrong with this scene it is comical. First of all,
there was really no need for the police in 1982 to make secret arrests in
this dramatic manner. If they wanted someone to quietly go with them, all
they had to do was to show their id and say "come with me". No one would
have resisted. Kidnapping would actually draw more attention. Second, the
police in 1982 was not that rich. They could not afford to give their
potential captives a car ride. They would have used a military style jeep.
In fact, in her interview with Reuters, Fu did say it was a jeep. It is a
mystery why she changed it into a car in the book. Third, the time of the
year was not consistent. She took the college entrance exam in 1977. The
school started in Feb of 1978. Since at that time all of Chinese
universities had four year programs, she should have graduated by the spring
of 1982. So it made absolutely no sense for her to think about graduation
in the fall of 1982. She must have had another time travel.
Then, after this kidnapping episode, she went home to Nanjing and declared (
page 258),
"I want to leave the university, claiming a nervous breakdown."
So this was how she quit the university without graduation. And she was
forced to exile to the US. But there is this one big problem. She did
graduate from Suzhou University with a BA degree in Chinese Literature. I
contacted University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where Ping Fu got her
MS degree, for her degree information, and this was their reply,
We had a student by that name graduate with an MS from UIUC May 1990 and
her Advisor was Jane Liu. She also obtained a BA in Computer Science &
Economics from the University of CA, San Diego in 1988 and a BA in
Literature from Suzou University-China in 1982. Her original application
file indicated she attended the University of New Mexico from 1984 to 1986,
but no degree was awarded.
She had a BA degree from Suzhou University in 1982 as indicated in her
application form. Did Ping Fu the author of Bend, not Break live in a
parallel universe?
Finally, let me end with a couple of jewels in the book. First, page 2:
The farthest I had been from Nanjing, the city of my birth, was Suzhou
University, where I had studied journalism and literature.
This is what happens when you tell too many lies. You cannot keep track of
all the lies that you have told, and somewhere you let it slip the reality,
which conflicts with everything else you say. Here Ms. Fu finally told a
truth. The truth was, that she never went further than Suzhou before leaving
for the US in 1984. The distance between Shanghai (where Fu was supposedly
living before the Cultural Revolution) and Nanjing (her birthplace) is about
350 kilometers, but the distance between Suzhou and Nanjing is about 220
kilometers. In fact, if you take a train from Nanjing to Shanghai, there is
a stop in between for Suzhou. This sentence on page 2 may have let the truth
slip through the web of lies weaved by Fu. It tells us that the story in
Shanghai before the Cultural Revolution may have been a tale. She lived in
Nanjing all along.
The second little jewel is on page 3:
I landed in San Francisco fourteen hours later, jet-lagged and
emotionally drained.
That was a direct, nonstop flight from Shanghai to San Francisco, on Jan 14,
1984, the date she arrived in the US. And on the flight there were American
flight attendants, who did not speak Chinese. United Airlines was the only
US airline that has direct nonstop flights from Shanghai to San Francisco,
when it was started in 1999. Did Ping Fu travel forward in time to catch the
United flight?
This book should be categorized as a science fiction. | J***J
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