Volume 196 [Looking to the Past, Predicting the Future]
The cover of "The Future Belongs to China" is bright red, a piece of red, without any fancy.
The waistband is white, and the staff of Fudan University Press specially added a sentence on the waistband: the works of Song Weiyang, chairman of Xifeng Company and leader of the Chinese business community in the Anti-Japanese War.
On the train, Ma Xiaoyun opened the title page and saw a few lines:
A truly great nation never disdains to play a minor role among mankind, or even a first-class role, but must play a unique role. If a nation loses this belief, it is no longer a nation. Dostoevsky.
It begins with a preface by President Yang of Fudan University, followed by Song Weiyang's "Preface: On National Spirit and Reverse Nationalism".
"Reverse nationalism (reveeraism) is an anthropological concept, which means that lower races in turn discriminate against higher races. I disagree with this statement, because races are equal, and there is no question of who is higher or who is lower. It’s just that the historical process of civilization development is different.”
"Today, I want to borrow this term to summarize the entire Chinese social trend of thought in the 1980s. That is, Chinese people dwarf themselves, deny themselves, fanatically praise all cultures and characteristics of non-Chinese nations, even their physical characteristics, and reject their own nationalities. Traditional cultural customs! Their worship of Western civilization has reached the point of ignorance and superstition, and they wish to take off their yellow skin and put on white skin to become a glorious 'superior'."
"There was a documentary called "River Elegy". From primitive villages with fences to feudal society with the Great Wall, it was demonstrated that the closed nature of the Chinese people can be traced back to prehistory. It is extremely absurd. Didn't ancient Europe have city walls? It is called' Did they eat the Roman walls of the Great Wall? Britain still has Hadrian’s Wall and Antony’s Wall there!”
"This is the logical model of the reverse nationalists, intercepting a commonality, replacing it with a Chinese personality, and then criticizing it out of context. The most notable representative is Mr. Bo Yang who wrote "The Ugly Chinese". He saw that China Merchants compete fiercely, but Japanese businessmen abide by the business order, saying that Chinese people like to fight in the nest, but ignore the commonality of global business competition. So this argument is derived: one Chinese is a dragon, three Chinese are three One pig, three worms. One Japanese man is a pig, and three Japanese men make a dragon."
"According to this logical pattern, we can make sentences at will. For example, Chinese people eat with a round table, which shows that Chinese people are hypocritical because they dare not look directly at each other; while Westerners eat with a square table, it proves that Westerners are sincere and value each other As for the fact that the Chinese also have square tables and Westerners have round tables, this is not within the scope of the anti-nationalists.”
"There is also a logical model called double standards, which is also a favorite of reverse nationalism. We also took Mr. Bo Yang as an example. He said: 'Foreigners can come back after a fight and shake hands, but Chinese people can get a hundred dollars if they fight. Years of hatred...why do we lack ocean-like tolerance?' Looking back, he said in another article: 'The Israelis are very capable of fighting back. When encountering suffering, they will struggle and ask the other party to pay the price. The Chinese are Forget it, forget it, one sentence, write it off, and make peace.’ From this, it can be seen that Chinese people’s revenge is a lack of tolerance, Chinese people’s non-revenge is peace, and Westerners are right in whatever they do.”
"It's not that the Chinese are ugly, it's the Chinese who are reverse nationalists. A son doesn't think his mother is ugly, and a dog doesn't think his family is poor. There are many dogs in the society who think their country is too poor. Immediately live a rich life. Some dogs even think that if other people occupy their own house, he can become a rich dog. When someone else throws a leftover bone, he picks it up, and he looks like a rich dog. Such an example There are a lot, and now domestic products can be sold easily with a foreign name, and they can be sold easily if a foreigner is hired to advertise, there is a reason.”
Ma Xiaoyun read it with great interest, and occasionally felt a little ashamed, because he seemed to be suspected of being a dog.
Chapter One: China's place in world history. It expounds in detail the greatness and advancement of China in the past dynasties, leading in all aspects of art, culture, politics, science and technology, economy, and military affairs.
Chapter Two: The Rise of Western Civilization and the Decline of Chinese Civilization. It talks about the course from the Renaissance to the great voyages, and the gradual decline of China in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and discusses the reasons why modern science cannot rise and develop in China by the way.
Chapter Three: China's contribution to the two world wars.
Chapter Four: Reflections on the Cold War and the coming of the era of globalization.
From the fourth chapter, Song Weiyang began to discuss current affairs, politics and industrial economy, which Ma Xiaoyun was most interested in.
This book not only recognizes the gap between China and the Western world, but also discusses various hidden dangers in developed countries.
"The American education system is a cannibalistic capitalist education system, a product and manifestation of class solidification. The quality education and industrial education of Americans must not be learned by China, otherwise it will be poisoned."
"There are two types of primary and secondary schools in the United States. One is public, with low tuition fees, quality education, and a hell for poor children; the other is private, with high tuition fees, elite education, and a paradise for rich children. Rich children, even No matter how bad their grades are, they can still enter prestigious schools through donations. Most poor children are mediocre in public middle schools, continuing the hardships of their parents."
"Some poor children immediately became the propaganda material of American education through their efforts to enter prestigious schools, but what awaited them was high tuition fees. Even if they graduate and work in high-income industries such as doctors and lawyers, poor children still need ten years to repay their educational loans. Even longer, continue to create wealth for the upper class in the United States. If a few top poor students can get a full scholarship, then he will be a successful model of American education and an elite wage earner of the upper class. Even if he becomes President, as well."
"Most American middle-class families cannot afford their children to go to college, because the tuition and books are too expensive. Now some domestic articles boast that American parents teach their children to be self-reliant when they are 18 years old. Such people must have never been to the United States. If it is an American family that values education, then the parents will start to save education funds for their children when their children are in elementary school. However, it is still difficult to make up enough education funds because it is too expensive and the children need to borrow money to study on their own After graduation, it will be a few years or more than ten years."
"This has something to do with the early consumption in the United States. The average household savings of Americans is actually not much higher than that of Chinese people. Even if their income is 100 times that of Chinese people, the monthly loan they need to repay is astronomical. Numbers. Now, interest rates in the United States continue to fall, and cash outflow refinancing is increasing day by day. Borrowers continue to borrow new debts and repay old debts. Once the US economy has problems, the entire society will be in chaos. They rely on subprime mortgages to survive. Perhaps, in the future There's going to be a subprime mortgage crisis..."
Chapter Seven: The Future Belongs to China.
The deduction and prophecy of the world factory, as well as the arrival of the Internet era, these two contents made Ma Xiaoyun's eyes shine.
If the current trend continues, even if China cannot become the world's factory, it must be an important commodity producer in the world. And this can be combined with the Internet to create an upgraded version of the Chinese Yellow Pages, allowing foreign merchants who want to seek Chinese partners to search and search at will.
Shenghai is not far from Linzhou. Ma Xiaoyun watched it on the train, then in the taxi, and finally took it to his home and company to watch, mainly because he was reading the future prophecy in Chapter 7.
"Boom boom boom!"
"Come in." Ma Xiaoyun continued to read without looking up.
"Boss Ma really studies hard." A young and beautiful woman walked into the room.
Her name is Fan Xinman, writer, poet, director, producer of "People's Life" (one of the four sections of "Oriental Time and Space"), and will serve as the chief director of "Moving China" for nine consecutive times in the future. Well, what people are more familiar with is that she put a green hat on Zhang's beard.
Fan Xinman and Ma Xiaoyun are fellow villagers, and they admire Ma Xiaoyun very much. The reason why Ma Xiaoyun visited Li Daochang is probably also due to her, because she is the one who made Li Daochang popular.
This time when she came to Zhouzhou, Fan Xinman wanted to make a documentary called "Scholar Ma Xiaoyun". It is also because of this documentary that Ma Xiaoyun has entered the field of vision of many bigwigs, and was even invited by "People's Daily" to give a speech on the Internet and helped to establish People's Daily Online.