2016年CRI Start of a time: the reconstitution and reinvention of a New China

 

"The industrial foundation that was laid by Mao during his thirty years in power that was later proved to be quite important for China to reform. So this was several aspects that we think to be the continuity of the Chinese communist party’s rule of China."

---- NGEOW Chow Bing

Deputy Director, Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia

"But I noticed a very interesting thing, people of Chinese specialist in the west draw attention to the fact that there been significant increase in life expectancy¹ in China during this period (1949-1978).

During the 27 years in which Mao Zedong was alive, the chronological² life expectancy increased by more than one year, for each year there is a power, that has never been anything like that in human history. This was astonishing. So in this period, not merely were old problems of China’s national self-determination solved but the social living conditions of people developed immeasurably."

--- John Ross

Well-known columnist³ in UK, Former Deputy Mayor of London

"For a long time, it looked as if countries like China just could not industrialize and could not compete with the western countries and so on. But we’ve seen, since the middle of the twentieth century, you know, with the time of 1949 revolution, but also the end of colonialism in many parts in Asia and so on, we saw the world change to create a new sort of possibility that the world did not have to be dominated by the west, which was a small fraction of humanity. Looking back now, we can see that possibility, opening up from crucial period at the end of the second world war. And now with China’s success with the reform period and so on, what that means is that a huge country like China can go from great backwardness to economic modernization⁴ and vitality⁵ and dynamism. "

--- Martin Jacques

Senior Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies; Well-known Author, Cambridge University

"More emphasis on the rights of woman, the female rights, more emphasis on the new system, more help with the spared industrial capacity, even like the "Sanxian", the third front project. All those source seems very helpful for the development of the market economy in the Deng Xiaoping era. So I would say as a scholar, we really cannot be, our view cannot be, you know, affected⁶ by ideologies⁷. We have to look into facts, how those two eras, two historical stages are connected, you know, to get what we choose from it. Not just simply criticize it when following another.

That's because history is history, we have to look at history in a more objective way."

--- Zheng Yongnian

Director, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

1 expectancy   

n.期望，预期，（根据概率统计求得）预期数额

参考例句：

• Japanese people have a very high life expectancy.日本人的平均寿命非常长。
• The atomosphere of tense expectancy sobered everyone.这种期望的紧张气氛使每个人变得严肃起来。

2 chronological   

adj.按年月顺序排列的，年代学的

参考例句：

• The paintings are exhibited in chronological sequence.这些画是按创作的时间顺序展出的。
• Give me the dates in chronological order.把日期按年月顺序给我。

3 columnist   

n.专栏作家

参考例句：

• The host was interviewing a local columnist.节目主持人正在同一位当地的专栏作家交谈。
• She's a columnist for USA Today.她是《今日美国报》的专栏作家。

4 modernization   

n.现代化，现代化的事物

参考例句：

• This will help us achieve modernization.这有助于我们实现现代化。
• The Chinese people are sure to realize the modernization of their country.中国人民必将实现国家现代化。

5 vitality   

n.活力，生命力，效力

参考例句：

• He came back from his holiday bursting with vitality and good health.他度假归来之后，身强体壮，充满活力。
• He is an ambitious young man full of enthusiasm and vitality.他是个充满热情与活力的有远大抱负的青年。

6 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

7 ideologies   

n.思想（体系）( ideology的名词复数 )；思想意识；意识形态；观念形态

参考例句：

• There is no fundamental diversity between the two ideologies. 这两种思想意识之间并没有根本的分歧。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Radical ideologies require to contrast to their own goodness the wickedness of some other system. 凡是过激的意识形态，都需要有另外一个丑恶的制度作对比，才能衬托出自己的善良。 来自辞典例句