2019年3月20日 星期三

《苦海餘生》CHINA: ALIVE IN THE BITTER SEA; From the Center of the Earth By Richard Bernstein (1982)白禮博(Richard Bernstein)、歐逸文(Evan Osnos)、何偉(Peter Hessler);

2017年介紹《苦海餘生》CHINA: ALIVE IN THE BITTER SEA;  From the Center of the Earth By Richard Bernstein,採用黎明版。
好時年出版社1982年的,似乎更完整。








1979年,中共首度准許美國媒體在北京成立分社,《紐約時報》派包德甫(Fox Butterfield)、《時代》周刊則派白禮博(Richard Bernstein)出任特派員。包德甫後來寫了一本《苦海餘生》,賣得非常好,發了一筆財。調回國內後,曾任波士頓分社主任,有次報導強暴案透露受害者身分,備受抨擊,以及其他紕漏,從此消聲匿跡。白禮博在1982年出版《來自地心》,談他在中國所見所聞,銷路則不如《苦海餘生》。(改行)
CHINA: ALIVE IN THE BITTER SEA by Fox Butterfield Times Books; 468 pages; $19.95 At a 1979 White House banquet honoring China's Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, Shirley MacLaine enthusiastically recalled a trip to the ...






RICHARD BERNSTEIN
From the Center of the Earth: The Search for the Truth About China (1982)

來自地心 台北: 黎明文化譯. 1982 此書沒授權 書名似乎故意亂翻 地心=地球的中心點。
應是來自地球中央: 中國真相之追求

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bernstein

Richard Bernstein (born May 5, 1944) is an American journalist, columnist, and author. He writes the Letter from America column for The International Herald Tribune. He was a book critic at The New York Times and a foreign correspondent for both Time magazine and The New York Times in Europe and Asia.
  • Fragile Glory: A Portrait of France and the French (1990)
  • Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America's Future (1994)
  • The Coming Conflict with China (1997), with Ross. H. Munro
  • Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment (2001)
  • Out of the Blue: The Story of September 11, 2001, from Jihad to Ground Zero (2002)
  • The East, the West, and Sex: A History of Erotic Encounters (2009)
  • A Girl Named Faithful Plum: The Story of a Dancer from China and How She Achieved Her Dream (2012)
  • China 1945 (2014)

"Mao’s own sincerity is deeply questionable. In Yenan after his negotiation with Chiang ended, Mao oversaw the CCP’s propaganda, which advertised the CCP as the party of peace, and he continued to move his troops as fast as possible into Manchuria. The Eighth Route Army had blocked all the ports except for Qinwangdao. In mid-November, Lin Biao occupied Changchun, one of the cities that the Soviets had designated as an airlift destination for government forces. The Soviets, always eager, they said, not to interfere in China’s internal affairs, did nothing to stop this from happening." -- Richard Bernstein, China 1945
In China 1945, Richard Bernstein tells the incredible story of the sea change that took place during that year—brilliantly analyzing its far-reaching components and colorful characters, from diplomats John Paton Davies and John Stewart Service to Time journalist, Henry Luce; in addition to Mao and his intractable counterpart, Chiang Kai-shek, and the indispensable Zhou Enlai. A tour de force of narrative history, China 1945 examines American power coming face-to-face with a formidable Asian revolutionary movement, and challenges familiar assumptions about the origins of modern Sino-American relations.

References
  1. ^ "The Times Names New Book Critic", The New York Times, 7 February 1995.
  2. ^ Biography, Master Media Speakers
  3. ^ Notable Books of the Year, 1997, The New York Times, 7 December 1997.

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China: Let a Hundred Flowers Wilt

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CHINA: The Gang of Four on Trial

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CHINA: The Empress Takes the Stand

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Books: The True Black Hand

THE WIND WILL NOT SUBSIDE: YEARS IN REVOLUTIONARY CHINA, 1964-1969 by DAVID MILTON and NANCY DALL MILTON 397 pages. Pantheon. $1 5. "I am alone with the masses, waiting," confided Mao Tse-tung to Andre Malraux in 1965. The "Great Helmsman" did not wait long. Within months he had launched the century's most idiosyncratic social upheaval: ...
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THE ORDEAL OF CIVILITY: Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity by JOHN MURRAY CUDDIHY 272 pages. Basic Books. $11.95. John Murray Cuddihy calls this jag ged meditation a "midrash." The metaphor is apt, for like a Talmudic exegesis, the book is a learned commentary on "sacred" texts, in this case those of the ...
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Books: Red Alert

FROM THE CENTER OF THE EARTH: THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT CHINA by Richard Bernstein Little, Brown; 260 pages; $15.95 CHINA: ALIVE IN THE BITTER SEA by Fox Butterfield Times Books; 468 pages; $19.95 At a 1979 White House banquet honoring China's Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, Shirley MacLaine enthusiastically recalled a trip to the ...
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A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 12, 1979

For Correspondent Richard Bernstein, stationed for two years in TIME's Hong Kong bureau, reporting on Teng Hsiaop'ing and his travels across the U.S. (see NATION and PRESS) proved especially dramatic and exciting. "It was a high point for any reporter who has covered China in the past," says Bernstein. "There was an unreal quality in ...
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美國出版界最近推出兩本與中國近代史和當代史有關的著作,極受重視,這兩本書的作者都是名家,其中一本在11月19日那天晚上還得了國家書卷獎(非小說類)。
1979年,中共首度准許美國媒體在北京成立分社,《紐約時報》派包德甫(Fox Butterfield)、《時代》周刊則派白禮博(Richard Bernstein)出任特派員。包德甫後來寫了一本《苦海餘生》,賣得非常好,發了一筆財。調回國內後,曾任波士頓分社主任,有次報導強暴案透露受害者身分,備受抨擊,以及其他紕漏,從此消聲匿跡。白禮博在1982年出版《來自地心》,談他在中國所見所聞,銷路則不如《苦海餘生》。(改行)
CHINA: ALIVE IN THE BITTER SEA by Fox Butterfield Times Books; 468 pages; $19.95 At a 1979 White House banquet honoring China's Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, Shirley MacLaine enthusiastically recalled a trip to the ...
70歲的白氏是猶太裔,比包德甫小5歲,從《時代》跳槽至《紐約時報》,歷任駐巴黎特派員和書評員。退休後勤於寫作,妻子是大陸舞蹈家李忠梅,有個10歲兒子,現住布魯克林。白禮博剛出版抗戰結束那年美國、國民黨與中共的三角關係,書名就叫《中國1945》,寫得很好。美國出版界有句話說,寧可看媒體人寫的歷史與傳記,因做過記者與編輯的人,對文字的運用、對故事的掌握,比學院派出身的還要靈活。寫美國捲入越戰的大衛‧哈伯斯坦、寫4大冊詹森傳的羅伯特‧卡洛都是做記者磨練出來。白禮博說,國共在抗戰結束後終起衝突,美國派赫爾利、魏德邁、馬歇爾赴華調處,皆無效果,責任不在美國,而在蘇聯。尤其是在1945年8月,史達林派出百萬大軍進入中國東北,全然改變了國共對峙的態勢,老毛從此確信蔣介石不但沒辦法在軍事上消滅共軍,而中共有機會以武力擊敗蔣介石。
把握中國大陸社會脈動
1949年中國大陸變色後,許多共和黨政客(包括部分保守派民主黨)都痛罵杜魯門「失去」中國,都把矛頭指向民主黨政府。白禮博強調,使蔣介石失去中國大陸的不是美國,而是史達林。導致史達林在東北又搶又拿又搬,並為中共鋪路的則是雅爾達會議。有些史家認為,即使沒有雅爾達密約,史達林亦會長驅直入東北。太多失誤造成河山變色,魏德邁力勸蔣介石不要把50萬國軍投入東北,而應強化長城以南、長江以北和華中一帶,老蔣不聽,後來後悔了,但已遲矣!白禮博這本《中國1945》,可以讓我們重溫69年前那段關鍵年代。
37歲的歐逸文(Evan Osnos)是美國的媒體後起之秀,他的父親彼得‧歐斯諾斯做過《華盛頓郵報》記者,日後成立「公共事務」出版社。歐逸文哈佛畢業後,先到《芝加哥論壇報》當記者,採訪過中東戰爭,2005年派赴北京。2008年9月加入《紐約客》雜誌,當北京特派員,一直做到去年,改任駐華府記者。在歐逸文之前,《紐約客》駐中國特派員是何偉(Peter Hessler,已調駐開羅)。不少人曾比較何偉和歐逸文的報導,我是《紐約客》的長期讀者,何偉的文字比較好,亦較有深度(那篇談學者陳夢家和趙蘿蕤的煎熬即為明證)。但歐逸文更會選題目,採訪很深入而全面。他採訪過瘋狂學英文的李陽和導演賈樟柯,亦親自跑到廣州非洲黑人區。他把他在大陸所寫的報導輯成《野心的時代:在新中國追求財富、真實和信仰》,角逐今年非小說類國家書卷獎,擊敗一批好手,脫穎而出。
歐逸文說他每寫一篇報導,總要花3個月或更多的時間,《紐約客》是份一流刊物,核實組即有20多名職員,為了何偉和歐逸文寫的中國報導,核實組又聘了兩名懂中文的職員。歐氏寫過上海復旦大學的憤青唐杰,也採訪過中國基督教徒。他在哈佛主修政治,一直對中國有濃厚興趣,大學還沒畢業就去過大陸,畢業那年又去了一次。他的中文不錯,在本京有人請他用中文演講,他不肯,他用中文說:「我不想讓我的中文丟人!」他把中國大陸的生活百態寫得很傳神,又細膩,頗能把握野心勃勃的新中國的社會脈動。
美政界缺中國問題專家
白禮博和歐逸文可說是兩個世代的美國媒體「中國通」,另一個兼具學院與媒體背景的老「中國通」是夏偉(Orville Schell)。當今美國學界和媒體擁有不少上乘的「中國通」,可悲的是,在政界卻找不到夠水準的中國問題專家,柯林頓時代還有個密西根大學出身的李侃如和溫斯頓‧羅德。歐巴馬口口聲聲說要把外交重心移向亞太,「中國通」卻不見蹤影,難怪美國政府對中國經常出現「瞎子摸象」的奇景。
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2017.11.20
中共這個階級嚴密的集團在1980年下令把懸掛了數十年,以示尊敬的共產黨先驅,馬克思、恩格斯、列寧、史達林等人的巨大肖像從天安門廣場拆卸下來,這件事就是個意味深長的暗示。看來馬克思和恩格斯的滿臉于思和突出的鼻子,在中國已永遠不得其所了。我不曉得中共是否會像幾世紀前融化佛教一樣,逐步吸收和改變共產主義。鄧小平本人就說過,所有共產主義的實際意義就是「實事求是」。
  
資訊爆炸的時代裡,碎片式的資訊催促人即時反應,許多評論因此少掉了縱深,只能斤斤計較眼前睫毛遠,而無法燭照前後。1982年,包德甫(Fox Butterfield)在他的新書《苦海餘生》(China:Alive in the Bitter Sea)最後篇章的這一段話,35年之後讀來,彷彿黑暗裡的點點閃光,刺激著閱讀者的視神經。
——花了一個月,斷續讀完後,我深深以為這書值得重新出版,再次閱讀。當代中國許多現象,不管好的、壞的,似乎都可從中獲得線索。


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