2016年CRI A choice of people: a new prospect and fate

 

Well, the problem with the fall of the Qing Dynasty in the revolution in 1911 is that it doesn’t mark a new start. It marks the collapse¹ of the old regime, but that’s not the real beginning of the new regime. I mean the great problem that China faced from the mid-19th century, if not in some respect rather earlier than that is what was its response to European modernity, European industrialization, European military powers. China found it very very difficult to come to terms with this. It was grudging², it was limited, it was spasmodic.

---Martin Jacques

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

Well, the Chinese communist party is unique in a sense that it had almost thirty years of revolutionary experience during the time from 1921 until 1949. That gave the party a very unique experience in struggle at the same time also state building before the People’s Republic of China was founded. So that experience form a kind of the unique repertoire³ for them to later draw their experience from.

---NGEOW Chow Bing

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

Why did it win the civil war? I mean it because Kuomintang was divided, was very corrupt⁴ and played a sort of often rather ambiguous role. And Mao, you know, mobilized the peasantry and fought very successful campaign largely against the Japanese and so on and so. Mao emerged as the new force which, you know, the Chinese ran it around. I mean, you know, that’s he won the civil war and Chiang Kai-shek lost the civil war. And that was, I think it was because the CPC offered a new prospect⁵, a new, you know, something, a fundamental break with the past. So I think that’s what the Chinese wanted, a break with the past, a new possibility.

---Martin Jacques

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

I believe that every country, the people of evey country, should have the right to choose their own path. The CPC is successful in the way that it has managed to respond positively⁶ to historical task.

It is a party with an immense history. It is a party that has influenced millions of progressive people around the planet with its struggle, with its ideology⁷, with its practices, with its experimentation⁸, with its history.

---Loannis Bournous

Member of the Political Bureau and International Secretary of Syriza, Greece

1 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

2 grudging   

adj.勉强的，吝啬的

参考例句：

• He felt a grudging respect for her talents as an organizer.他勉强地对她的组织才能表示尊重。
• After a pause he added"sir."in a dilatory,grudging way.停了一会他才慢吞吞地、勉勉强强地加了一声“先生”。

3 repertoire   

n.(准备好演出的)节目，保留剧目；(计算机的)指令表，指令系统， <美>(某个人的)全部技能；清单，指令表

参考例句：

• There is an extensive repertoire of music written for the flute.有很多供长笛演奏的曲目。
• He has added considerably to his piano repertoire.他的钢琴演奏曲目大大增加了。

4 corrupt   

v.贿赂，收买；adj.腐败的，贪污的

参考例句：

• The newspaper alleged the mayor's corrupt practices.那家报纸断言市长有舞弊行为。
• This judge is corrupt.这个法官贪污。

5 prospect   

n.前景，前途；景色，视野

参考例句：

• This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
• The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。

6 positively   

adv.明确地，断然，坚决地；实在，确实

参考例句：

• She was positively glowing with happiness.她满脸幸福。
• The weather was positively poisonous.这天气着实讨厌。

7 ideology   

n.意识形态，(政治或社会的)思想意识

参考例句：

• The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
• The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。

8 experimentation   

n.实验，试验，实验法

参考例句：

• Many people object to experimentation on animals.许多人反对用动物做实验。
• Study and analysis are likely to be far cheaper than experimentation.研究和分析的费用可能要比实验少得多。