author：  Yuhua


In the mid-1960s, near the end of the Cultural Revolution, I was still a middle school student. Boys and girls didn't talk to each other back then, and even had they wanted to, no one would have dared. Even if you had a crush on someone, the most you could do would be to sneak a peak at them. Some of the bolder boys might pass notes to the girls, would typically respond with nervousness and trepidation. If the note were somehow exposed, the girl in question would be deeply ashamed, as if she herself had done something wrong.

Now, more than three decades later, there is nothing private nor scandalous about middle schoolers in love. In fact, there was a recent news report about a uniform-wearing middle school student who went to hospital to get an abortion. She was accompanied by four middle school boys, who were also wearing their school uniforms, and when the surgeon asked for a family member to sign the medical release forms, all four boys immediately rushed forward.

Why exactly we have we gone from one extreme to another, I don't know. ver the past 30 years China has created an economic miracle that is visible to the entire world. With an average annual growth rate of 9% over the past 30 years, China has become the world's third greatest economic powerhouse. Behind these glorious numbers, however, lies another unsettling set of figures. The average annual income in China ranks one hundredth in the world. During the past three decades of reform and opening up, the gap between rural and urban China has -actually increased. The nation's growth rate and its poverty rate should be -interconnected – but in today's China they often are not.

In the past three decades of Reform and Opening-Up, not only has the gap between rural and urban China not diminished, it has actually increased. In 2007, the difference in salary between urban and rural residents increased to a ratio of 3.33 to 1, or a differential of 9646 RMB. This is the largest gap between urban and rural incomes since the beginning of the Reform and Opening-up era in 1978.

Why is there no end of stories of counterfeit and substandard goods? Why are so many Chinese -consuming poisoned and contaminated pork, rice, and milk powder? It is because these products are cheap, and given people's meager salaries these ersatz goods are often their only option. In other words, we could say that the -reason that counterfeit and substandard products can be sold so successfully in China is because there is a market for them – that market being the nation's vast impoverished populace.

China is a geographically diverse, heavily populated and unevenly developed country. By the mid-1980s, those living in urban areas in the eastern part of China were all drinking Coke, and even in the mid-1990s, when workers who had migrated out of the mountainous middle regions of the country returned home for the holidays, they often brought back bottles of Coke as presents, because their families had never even seen the beverage.

The great unevenness of -contemporary society has also brought about comparable unevenness at the level of people's dreams and -aspirations. A few years ago, China Central -Television broadcast a 1 June show to observe International Children's Day. They interviewed children from all parts of China, asking them what they wanted most for Children's Day. A boy from -Beijing wanted a real Boeing jet, while a girl from the north-west shyly responded that she wanted a pair of white tennis shoes. These two children were the same age, but their dreams were unimaginably distant from one another.

We've actually been living in this state of incommensurable differences for many years now. Why did I write my novel? The first part is a tale about the Cultural Revolution: a spiritually passionate, emotionally and -physically repressed, cruelly fated age, not unlike the European middle ages. The -second part, meanwhile, is a fable set in -contemporary times: a decadent, absurdist, indulgent age, even more so than present-day Europe.

A westerner would have to live through four centuries in order to -experience such drastically -different eras, while a Chinese need only to have lived through four decades. This is the China of today. We are caught in a huge gap: not only between history and reality, but also between reality and fantasy.

I would like to conclude by relating another true story, one which took place in a city in southern China. Amid the forest of skyscrapers and malls and the bustling, thriving sights of such a city, a sixth grader was kidnapped. The two kidnappers were penniless and new at the game, so they were promptly apprehended by the police. It turns out that while they were waiting for their ransom and found themselves without any money to buy a box lunch, one of them ventured out to borrow 20 renminbi to buy two boxes. They gave one box to the sixth grader and shared the other one between themselves. When the child was rescued, he told the police sadly: "They were too poor."

这里有获取PPT的其他两种途径：

1. 一、二
2. 点击右下角全屏按钮左边的那个按钮，找到“URL”一项，复制粘贴那个地址在浏览器中打开，新打开的页面中会有一个明显的橙色“Download”的按钮，点击即可。

第一份PPT讲述了甲型H1N1流感的基础知识、背景等。来源署名为“ID TA Medical Team/ CD&MA”，不太清楚这是一个什么组织，但PPT制作的十分精细，查了相关的知识点，还是很可靠的。

第二份讲稿更加全面、具体，由协和医院的工作人员翻译，应该是很权威的。朋友提醒我要注意这份讲义的第62页：边境检查没有任何更多的意义，只是安慰国民心理罢了，如果自觉发烧应尽快向医院反馈。

老邱说这个流感挺麻烦，还是多注意为好

昨天下午一断电，再开机1500多行代码都变成小方块，用不了了，找谁说理去。so sickness了。

第n次证明他们说的，太tm方了。


ps：

早晨，碰上堵车。提前下了公车，一路狂奔到单位。 这个汗啊！

这东西还有缓释作用？

啥也不说了 。。。