According to Taiwan media, recently, the widow of the famous writer Bai Yang , Ms. Zhang Xianghua , once again refused to authorize the island textbook to extract Bai Yang's old work "Ugly Chinese", because it was suspected that someone used the title of the book "anti-China".
Zhang Xianghua bluntly stated that she could not agree with the repeated "de-Sinicization" and even "anti-China" education and new curriculum on the island.
(Photo taken with Zhang Xianghua during his lifetime)
It is understood that as early as 2016, Ms. Zhang Xianghua received an invitation to authorize the middle school textbook. She had refused once at that time. Unexpectedly, five years later, she received the same invitation again. She believes that middle school students' national self-confidence has not yet been established, and they cannot understand their spirits by rashly reading critical works such as "Ugly Chinese" and will be misled.
(Auxiliary material of Taiwan Middle School History Textbook)
Taiwan media reported that Ms. Zhang Xianghua denounced the Taiwanese textbooks' behavior of replacing "Chinese History" with "East Asian History", and opposed instilling in teenagers with wrong historical views, believing that such behavior is "destroyable", so she refused all similar authorizations, and was determined to permanently stop publishing "Ugly Chinese" after the expiration of the copyright between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait in accordance with Bai Yang's will during his lifetime.
The book "Ugly Chinese" was published in mainland China in 2004. At that time, Bai Yang was very happy and believed that "the things I hoped for for many years" was that it was not easy for "Ugly Chinese" to finish the book before.
Bai Yang once gave a speech at Taichung Tonghai University on this topic, and then received a blank tape - the content of his speech was not entered at all, and it was not until he went abroad to give a speech. This book "Ugly Chinese" is the work included in his speech.
Bai Yang was born in 1920 and graduated from the Department of Politics of Northeastern University. He went to Taiwan after 1949. He served as deputy editor-in-chief and professor of art school in "Self-Liberation Evening News ". Bai Yang has a strong personality and extreme language. He was imprisoned for angering the Taiwanese authorities. He joked that he said: "I have been in Taiwan for more than 30 years and has written novels. Ten years, ten years of writing essays, and ten years of jail. "
Given the special historical background of the last century, Bai Yang's impression of China has always revolved around "poverty", "dirty and messy", "fighting in the nest", etc. He not only criticized the mainland, but also criticized Taiwan. The entire China is the target of his criticism, and even foreigners can't stand it. He accused him: "Don't you feel ashamed of insulting and denounced your motherland in our country like this?"
Bai Yang answered generously: "You looked down on the Chinese people, I dared to expose China's ugliness, this is the progress of the nation."
In Bai Yang's opinion, China at that time was "terminal ill". Compared with national confidence, exposure and reflection were the most important. Some people compared him with Lu Xun. Unexpectedly, Mr. Bai Yang replied with confidence: "I write better than Lu Xun, because I stand by his On the shoulders."
In "Ugly Chinese", Bai Yang gathered the bad habits of the Chinese people in a cocoon and focused on criticizing and scolding them. These trivial matters have also happened to foreigners, such as quarrels and swearing between husband and wife, whispering too loudly, partners stabbing each other in the back, etc., to draw the conclusion that the Chinese are inferior to foreigners, which is slightly biased.
What's more, while belittling the Chinese, the article is full of praise for the Japanese, European and American, and Jewish . Apart from reflection, it does not propose a solution suitable for the Chinese. It also treats Chinese traditional culture as dregs, and even criticizes the entire nation with the toxicity of feudal thought. Such ideas are not only extreme, but also long ago outdated.
(Picture comparison between the last century and this century)
In 2008, China has gradually become stronger. The reason why Mr. Bai Yang asked to be buried in the mainland was due to his love for his hometown.His attitude towards China, from the beginning, to the fact that he had failed to get strong, to make a will before his death, demanding that the book "The Ugly Chinese" be stopped forever. This may be the last reflection in his life.
Now, the person in charge of Taiwan’s middle school textbooks, regardless of the actual situation, insists on taking books from the last century to students today. This is undoubtedly a kind of "brainwashing". He wants to give students a wrong impression and strive to create an image of "poverty and backward" in mainland China to cover up the hearts of the people that the Taiwan authorities are increasingly difficult to win over.
What's more, this book has been around for a long time, and even the author no longer fully adheres to the previous views, but Taiwan's textbooks are still tireless and repeatedly initiate authorization. I guess the current level of "public knowledge" is too low to satisfy their political manipulation, right? But what if you enter the textbook? It’s just a dying struggle. How can a clown stop people’s hearts from turning to their backs?
