美國合眾國際社
發自北京的報道
ZCZC PHAOO1 NXI
00 HED HPA
A I
UTOPIA 10-18 (1980)
----BLUEPRINT FOR A UTOPIAN
"GOLDEN AGE"-----
BY PAUL LOONG
PEKING (UPI) ----
THERE ARE TWO KIND OF WRITINGS IN CHINA：THOSE PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORITIES, AND ALL THE REST.
THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL AMONG THE SECOND KIND ARE THE ''UNDERGROUND'' POLITICAL WRITINGS PUT OUT BY DISSIDENTS. THEY HAVE BEEN OUTLAWED AND BANNED.
DISSIDENTS?WRITINGS, HOWEVER, FORM ONLY A TINY PORTION OF THE SILENT OUTPOURINGS BY A VERITABLE SUB-CULTURE OF LITERATE CHINESE WHOSE CRAVING IS TO WRITE ---- BUT WHOSE DESIGNATED PLACE IN SOCIETY IS TO DO SOMETHING ELSE.
THEIR SCRIBBLINGS, LABORIOUSLY FILLING OUT THE 400 BOXES ON EACH OF PERHAPS HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF MANUSCRIPT PAPER, LIKELY NEUPR WILL SEE PRINT.
THEY WRITE NONETHELESS, TO SHOW FRIENDS, TO SET DOWN A GRAND NOTION OR MERELY TO QUIET THE DRIVING URGE.
THEIR SUBJECT MATTER RANGE FROM SOLEMN TREATISES ON THE WORLD OF LEARNING, TO POEMS AND SHORT STORIES ABOUT DAILY LIFE, TO EVEN PERSONAL EROTICA.
IN A LESS RIGID SOCIETY, SOME OF THESE MANUSCRIPTS MIGHT FIND THEIR WAY INTO POPULAR BOOKS STORES ON SHELVES LABELLED "THRILLERS", "ROMANCE", OR "NON-FICTION".
A 40, 000-ORD LONG MANUSCRIPT PROPHESIZING THE APOCALYPSE AND REBIRTH OF CHINA INTO A "GOLDEN AGE" MIGHT EVEN MAKE A BEST-SELLER BECAUSE OF ITS ENGAGING JUSTAPOXITION OF HISTOY AND PROPHECY, ANALYSIS AND VISION.
UNLIKE MOST AUTHORIZED WRITINGS IN CHINA, THE MANUSCRIPT IS LARGELY DEVOID OF DOGMA. IT TAKES A SWEEPING VIEW OF CHINA IN THE 20TH CENTURY, AND LOOKS AHEAD WITH A MYTHICAL EYE INTO THE 21ST. ITS LANGUANGE AT TIMES RESEMBLES THE BOOK OF GENESIS.
IT DEFIES CLASSIFICATION -- --THE MANUSCRIPT COULD SIT EQUALLY AT EASE UNDER THE LABELS "FICTION", "NON-FICTION", "HISTORY","FUTUROLOGY".
[MORE]
ZCZ PHAOO2 NXI
00 HED HPA
A I
UTOPIA 1STADD PEKING 10-18 (1980)
XX X "FUTUROLOGY".
THE AUTHOR, WHO WISHES TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS, ATTENDS ONE OF THE INSTITUTES OF HIGHER LEARNING IN PEKING. HE CLAIMS TO HAVE WRITTEN THE ESSAY ON BEHALF OF A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO SOUGHT TO UNDERSTAND THE IMMENSE SUFFERINGS THAT HAD BFALLEN CHINA THIS CENTURY IN THE FORM OF WARS, PESTILENCE AND VIOLENT REVOLUTIONS.
HIS BASIC BELIEF IS THAT CHINA IS ON THE THRESHOLD OF A GOLDEN AGE. MEANTIME THE COUNTRY IS GOING THROUGH A CONVULSIVE TRANSITION! A PAINFUL GESTATION DURING WHICH "ANCIENT CUSTOMS, PROPRIETIES AND CULTURE ARE RANSACKED BUT THE NEW ERA IS YET TO BE BORN. EVERYTHING IS IN THE PROCESS OF FORMING."
HE CITED THE 1966--76 CULTURAL REVOLUTION AS THE LATEST CONVULSION.
HE NOTED CHINA WENT THROUGH A SIMILAR TRANSITION PERIOD BETWEEN THE TWO GREAT DYNASTIES OF HAN (206 B.C.-220 A.D.) AND TANG (618- 907 A.D.) HE INTIMATED THE COMING "GOLDEN AGE" WOULD BE EVEN MORE BRILLIANT THAN TANG. CHINA -- CONSIDERED THE STRONGEST ERA IN CHINA’S 4000 YEARS OF HISTORY.
THE CURRENT TRANSITION PERIOD, WHICH STARTED IN 1911 WITH THE COLLAPSE OF THE CHING DYNASTY, "IS MAMMOTH BRIDGE THAT STANDS ASTRIDE CLASSICAL AND MODERN CHINA." HE WROTE. "IT IS NOT BARREN. IT WILL PRODUCE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BLOSSOMING OF CULTURE, EVEN THOUGH OUR GENERATION CAN ONLY TASTE THE BITTER FRUTT."
HE SAID THE CROSSING OF THIS "BREDGE" IS TREACHEROUS. "WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF LIVES AND PROPERTY WORTH BILLIONS HAS BEEN A COMMON SIGHT IN CHINA’S RECENT HISTORY."
IN THE SUFFERING AND MISERY, THE CHARACTER OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE WILL BE STEELED AND THE "HISTORICAL GARBAGE" ACCUMMULATED IN THEIR PSYCHE OVER THE CENTURIES WILL BE CLEANSED OUT. HE SAID.
THIS WOULD PROVIDE THE "HUMAN SOIL" FROM WHICH THE NEW CULTURE OF THE "GOLDEN AGE" WILL GERMINATE, HE SAID.
[MORE]
ZCZC PHA003 NXI
00 HED HPA
A I
UTOPIA 2STADD PEKING 10-18 (1980)
X X X SAID
HE SAID THE TRANSITIQN,WHICH HE CALLED "THE GREAT SUN YAT-SEN ERA", WILL SPAN THE 20TH CENTURY AND STRETCH INTO THE 21ST.
AT THAT TIME A STRONG AND POWERFUL HAND WILL EMERGE TO END IN ONE STROKE THIS LONG HISTORICAL PROCESS." HE PREDICTED. THE ERA WILL END "WITH A SPCTACULAR CLOSING CEREMONY THAT WILL MAKE MILLIONS REJOICE, AND MILLIONS TREMBLE."
"SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE CAN’T EVEN DREAM OF WILL GROW AND BECOME PROPEROUS. IT WILL BE FILLED WITH THE GOLDEN ATMOSPHERE OF A GREAT SPRINGT1ME." HE WROTE.
HIS VIEW OF UTOPIA IS A "SELF-SUSTAINING CULTURED NATION THAT HAS SHAKEN OFF THE NIGHTMARE, COMPLETED SELF-RENEWAL."
"SUCH A CHINA WILL NOT NEED INCESSANT PURGES AND ‘MOVEMENTS’ TO KEEP IT GOING. SUCH A COUNTRY HAS NOT NEED FOR THE ACCIDENTAL INDIVIDUAL WILL OR OPPORUNIST DESIRE TO MASTER IT...... IT HAS A LEGAL SYSTEM, IT BEHAVES COURTEOUSLY......IT HAS A SELF-RELIANT ECONOMY AND A SELF-DEFENSE CAPABILITY THAT IS NOT USED TO BULLY THE WEAK.
"IT CAN LET ITS PEOPLE LIVE THE LIFE OF A HUMAN BEING,"HE WROTE.
HE ENVISIONED THE HARBINGERS OF THE NEW CULTURE NOT AS LEAPNED SAGES ("INTELLECTUAL NOWADAS ARE MERELY PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM INDIGESTION...... THEY HAVE LOST THEIR TRAD1TION UNITY AND INFLUENCE. THEY ARE IMPOTENT IN BRING ANY CHANGES.") BUT STRONG WARRIOR-PHILOSOPHERS.
"ALL CREATORS OF CULTURE ARE FILLED WITH A PRIMITIVE, BRUTE SPIRIT, " HE SAID."THEY WANT TO CREATE AN UNPOWDERED, UNPERFUMED CLTURE---- AN IMMENSITY OF SPIRIT, AN IRRESISTIBLE URGE, A HEART THAT HUNGERS FOR THE REMOVAL OF INJUSTICES."
UPI PL
N N N N