Saturday, October 07, 2006

文革的全称

不知道这是不是最正确的说法:
無產階級文化大革命——The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

還有些翻譯,都是似曾相識的:

until 1968, the year of the cataclysmic July 27 Red Guard battles in Beijing, when screaming fanatics from the Geology Institute's "Earth Faction" and the Aeronautical University's "Heaven Faction" (all joined by cofactionalists from Tsinghua University) butchered and maimed each other in fighting that lasted the entire day. The "7-27 Incident" was the breaking point for Mao Zedong who finally ordered the PLA to clean out the city of students and ship them all off to the countryside to cool off-forever, as far as he was concerned.

什麽是“Earth Faction”,什麽是“Heaven Faction”,搞得好似紐約黑幫一樣。當時的情形,什麽“天派”、“地派”,可以參考這裡的敍述。不過就過程來講,60年代末和80年代末的學生水準好像沒有根本區別,也就是大環境換了換,主義不太一樣,而口號也跟著變了。

這就好像.tw地區目前的情形,很多人不大真正了解什麽主義,什麽理念。不過,當年的場面火爆太多了。當年的熱血青年,沒什麽成本可以犧牲,大不了就是坐牢矮槍子,加上一貫的革命教育,語言暴力,反而讓人覺得“王侯將相,寧有种乎”,反就反了,倘若成事,明天上紀念碑前那個城樓上跟領袖握手去。

大概,懷著這樣的心情,動蕩的時代就開始了。

BTW,現在有一位大員,就是在那之前離開“Earth Faction”那個學校的。你不必動腦筋就可以想到。

No comments: