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美国国家公共电台 NPR A Dream Of Modern China

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RAMTIN ARABLOUEI, HOST:

We're going to start this episode with a story from a Chinese fable1.

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ZVI BEN-DOR BENITE: There used to be an old man who had a farm. And he was cultivating this farm, you know, but he had a lot of problems because there were two mountains that were blocking his way. One day, he decided2 to get rid of these two mountains. You know, and these mountains were huge; they were gigantic. So he got outside with his sons, and they were starting, you know, dismantling3 the mountains, taking them piece after piece, stone after stone.

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As old man, foreign language spoken).

BENITE: This old man had a neighbor. And the neighbor got outside and says, oh, you foolish old man, you will never get rid of these mountains.

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As neighbor, foreign language spoken).

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As old man, foreign language spoken).

BENITE: The old man and his two sons continued to work very, very hard. And they worked. And they worked. And they worked. And they worked. And they worked. And they worked. And then, at some point, heaven had mercy on them because they worked very hard, and they got rid of the mountains for them. They removed the mountains.

The old man is the Chinese people. You know, the two mountains are the two obstacles that we had to fight - you know, imperialism5 and feudalism. In other words, the weight of the Chinese traditional past - yes - and imperialism, foreign domination. And if we work hard, heaven will have mercy on us.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #1: China's economy has grown faster than that of any other major country. Once poor and underdeveloped, the Asian giant has now grown into...

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #2: Second in GDP, only to the United States.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #3: Chinese plans call for an overland link from Eastern China.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #4: There's so much in China that we don't get and we haven't gotten from the Western perspective.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #2: Beijing will not deviate6 from its one-party system or take orders from any other country.

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RUND ABDELFATAH, HOST:

You're listening to THROUGHLINE from NPR.

ARABLOUEI: Where we go back in time...

ABDELFATAH: To understand the present.

ARABLOUEI: All right. Shall we talk about China, Rund?

ABDELFATAH: Yes. Let's talk about China.

ARABLOUEI: You seem very excited for China.

ABDELFATAH: I'm ready for, like, 3,000 years of history.

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ARABLOUEI: We're not going to do all 3,000 years, but...

ABDELFATAH: All right.

ARABLOUEI: But I have a specific story in mind, actually.

ABDELFATAH: OK.

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ARABLOUEI: OK. So for much of China's history, it's been a major power in Asia. And at times, it was widely seen as a world power. Dynastic rulers came and went. But in the 1800s, something changes.

ABDELFATAH: The 1800s - what happens?

ARABLOUEI: Well, a lot happens. The economy went through a decline. There were rebellions. But the most important thing for our story is imperialist powers began encroaching.

KLAUS MUHLHAHN: So that means foreigners appear on the Chinese coast that actually want, you know, a part of the Chinese market, that want to sell their products and that are also interested just in strategic gains by occupying parts of the country.

ARABLOUEI: That's Klaus Muhlhahn. He wrote a book called "Making China Modern." And what he's alluding7 to are the battles that China lost to the British, French, Americans, Russians and Japanese during the 1800s. They lost land and influence in the region. But most importantly, it hurt the country's confidence.

MUHLHAHN: Once they lost these battles and they recognized that there's a technological8 difference - the Westerners have some technologies that they don't have - that actually becomes, I would say, the starting point of a sort of an inferiority complex that develops and grows over the course of the 19th century.

SHELLY CHAN: So there's a sense of urgency, a sense of crisis that something bad has happened to China.

ARABLOUEI: This is Shelly Chan. She's a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

CHAN: If we're not careful, if we're not - we don't come out with better and newer ideas to build a stronger and modern nation-state, then we'll be in serious trouble.

ARABLOUEI: It was a bad century, and it left many Chinese people traumatized. The country's elites9 and educated class placed the blame for China's condition on the people ruling China at the time, the Qing dynasty.

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ARABLOUEI: The Qing dynasty was started in 1644 by a group of people called the Manchus.

BENITE: The Manchus where a seminomadic people that lived in today's Manchuria, Southern Siberia in North Asia. And they swept down into China - very relatively10 swift conquest.

ARABLOUEI: This is Zvi Ben-Dor Benite.

BENITE: I'm a historian of China at New York University.

ARABLOUEI: And he explained that the Qing were kind of seen as outsiders by a lot of Chinese people, the majority of which were Han Chinese.

BENITE: Why are they seen as outsiders - for the mere11 fact that they are outsiders.

CHAN: Notions about race came into play. Suddenly, people were reminded that the ruling power - the ruling house of China was actually belonging to a foreign race.

BENITE: This is a Manchu alien dynasty that, you know, we need to get rid of.

ABDELFATAH: It sounds like the Qing kind of came to represent everything China was going through - the failure, the decline - all of it.

ARABLOUEI: Yeah, yeah. And what happens is a new kind of Chinese nationalism starts forming. It was an ethnic12 Han Chinese nationalism that's driven by great historical pride and the idea that China has to be returned to its past greatness by, quote, unquote, "real" Chinese people.

ABDELFATAH: But I want to stop for a second, Ramtin, if that's OK. What does any of this have to do with China today?

ARABLOUEI: Ah, the THROUGHLINE.

ABDELFATAH: Yes, the THROUGHLINE.

ARABLOUEI: OK, so everyone knows that China's a superpower today. They now rival the U.S. in terms of economic power and influence. And there is a great nationalism and cultural pride that's fueled China's economic and military rise. All of the humiliation13 they faced at the hands of colonial powers in the 1800s sparked this deep national fervor14 to bring the country back to greatness. So as China modernized16 in the 20th century, it had this underlying17 nationalism pushing it forward. I don't think you can fully18 understand the motivations of China's government today without knowing that period of history.

ABDELFATAH: OK. I'm with you.

ARABLOUEI: So when I was looking into this period, I came across the story of a Chinese leader who really embodies19 this transition into modernity - Sun Yat-sen.

ABDELFATAH: Sun Yat-sen.

ARABLOUEI: Yeah. In the late 1800s, Sun Yat-sen articulated this vision of modern China - a strong, industrialized country that could compete with the West on the world stage. He's called the father of the nation in Taiwan and pioneered the revolution in Beijing.

ABDELFATAH: Wait. Wait. Both places see him as a hero, like a founding father kind of guy?

ARABLOUEI: Yes. And that's part of what makes him so intriguing20. He was a revolutionary who helped create the first Chinese Republic in 1912. He spent most of his life fighting the Qing dynasty and trying to modernize15 China. His life mirrors China's journey from feudalistic dynasty to a modern nation-state. And it illustrates21 the birth of modern Chinese nationalism, a force that still shapes China to this day.

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ARABLOUEI: Part I - finding revolution.

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JONATHAN TAN: (As Sun Yat-sen) For 31 years, I have toiled22 hard for the welfare of the Chinese people. My life has been consecrated23 to the Chinese people. And my devotion to the tasks I have set myself has remained unchanged during this long period. Neither the might of the Manchu dynasty nor the older misfortunes of my life availed to turn me aside from the aims I placed before me. I strove what I aspired24 to. The more failures I experienced, the more I yearned25 for the struggle. Sun Yat-sen.

ARABLOUEI: Sun Yat-sen was born in 1866, right in the middle of the devastating26 19th century.

CHAN: He was born in a place called Xiangshan in Guangdong province in southern China.

ARABLOUEI: Sun's father was a day laborer27. The family started poor. His uncles traveled to California and died looking for gold. But his older brother found success in agricultural trade in Hawaii. He ended up becoming very rich and upgraded the family's social status. And he sent for Sun Yat-sen, who was in his early teens, to come study there.

BENITE: He was based in Hawaii for a while, where he acquires different ideas.

CHAN: All his life has been very exposed to foreign ideas and knowledge. And he developed a kind of admiration28 for the different kinds of ideas that floating around.

ARABLOUEI: And all of this made him start to question parts of Chinese culture.

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TAN: (As Sun Yat-sen) The majority of Chinese cannot understand the benefits of international cooperation and therefore will not tolerate the thought of any superiority over themselves or of allowing others to correct their mistakes. This has made China narrow-minded and undoubtedly29 has hindered her progress.

ARABLOUEI: When he was 16, Sun Yat-sen became interested in converting to Christianity. His older brother - the one he lived with in Hawaii - found out and was not having it.

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ARABLOUEI: To keep him from converting, he sent him back to China to live in the family village in Guangdong. And that's where Sun Yat-sen figures out how to get in even more trouble. One night, he and one of his friends vandalized the village temple. They saw it as a remnant of China's backward past. To the people living in the village, this was blasphemous30, and they were angry.

ABDELFATAH: I bet, yeah.

ARABLOUEI: So Sun Yat-sen had to basically escape to Hong Kong. And in the end, he converted to Christianity. He was baptized by an American missionary31 when he was 19 years old.

BENITE: Christianity is understood in China at different moments in different ways. But in that particular moment, it is associated with Western presence, even with Western progress - a desire to break with, you know, old Chinese belief systems.

MUHLHAHN: And then Christianity appears as one of the teachings that, for them, in their eyes, made the success of the Western world possible. Many of the political elites become Christians32.

BENITE: We should be careful not to exaggerate the role of Christianity in his thoughts. I mean, Sun Yat-sen knew very well to be very critical, you know, of certain aspects of Western life. He was aware of, for instance, the dangers of capitalism33. You know, his views about capitalism were quite nuanced. You know, he's a man who was searching a lot.

ARABLOUEI: And he continued that search in Hong Kong after the whole village incident. He's trying to figure out what to do with his life. He went to medical school and became a doctor. Right about that time, there was this growing movement of students and elites that started thinking about bringing change to the Qing dynasty.

ABDELFATAH: How do they think they could bring about change?

ARABLOUEI: There were some people who focused their efforts on pushing the Qing to modernize its military. Other people saw social inequality as the problem. And then there were those who wanted democracy. So Sun Yat-sen joined these conversations and the movement. Eventually, there were two major camps of anti-Qing people. One group wanted to reform or replace the Qing dynasty. This was a more moderate approach at that time.

Then there was a group who wanted something more radical34. They wanted to get rid of the dynastic system altogether. They wanted a democracy, like a real republic.

ABDELFATAH: I mean, that group's talking about getting rid of something that lasted, like, thousands of years up to that point. Right? It had been in place a long, long, long, long time.

ARABLOUEI: Yeah. And I think for some people, that was even hard to imagine. And initially35, Sun Yat-sen was not part of that group.

ABDELFATAH: Oh.

ARABLOUEI: He was part of the reform group.

ABDELFATAH: OK.

ARABLOUEI: He was really passionate36 about this idea and wrote up a plan for reform and tried to get a meeting with the Qing officials so he could present his ideas. I think he was hoping to convince the official, who would then take Sun Yat-sen's ideas up the chain of command and get them implemented37. It was idealistic. But the Qing official refused to see him.

ABDELFATAH: So he's shut down.

ARABLOUEI: He's shut down. Being rejected like that offended him, and so he began doubting that the Qing could be reformed. He became an anti-Qing activist38. But he was a bit of an outsider in terms of his approach.

He was more of a pragmatist than an ideologue. And his basic philosophy was this - China was weak because it was economically and militarily backwards39. And the only way for it to return to greatness was to abandon the backwardness of the past and to modernize.

TAN: (As Sun Yat-sen) My fellow countrymen know that our country is moving towards destruction. And if even animals have a sense of duty to their family and home, man must, without doubt, inwardly feel his duty to help his country. The citizens of China, who not only inhabit our country but strive that it may be great and flourish, have many ways of bringing this about. I want to set forth40 one of these possible ways.

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ARABLOUEI: In 1894, Sun Yat-sen helped start an organization called the Revive China Society. And the first place he went to raise money for their work was Hawaii.

ABDELFATAH: Oh, he went back to Hawaii.

ARABLOUEI: He went back to Hawaii. And he did this mostly because that's where the money was to fund his movement. His wealthy brother and other members of the Chinese diaspora were his base. And so he went asking for their support.

ABDELFATAH: Did he get it?

ARABLOUEI: Yeah. He was really good at it. It was part of the reason he emerged as a leader in the movement.

ABDELFATAH: And what exactly did they need the money for?

BENITE: Armed uprising.

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ARABLOUEI: In 1895, Sun Yat-sen went back to Hong Kong and helped create a plan to start a rebellion against the Qing. Here was the plan. Three thousand armed revolutionaries were going to sneak41 into a city in southern China called Guangzhou by boat. Weapons were stored around the city. Even Qing military officers were recruited to help with the conspiracy42.

CHAN: He had this idea that, you know, we could start, you know, kind of from the margins43 of the empire and strike where it's weakest. Then there's a possibility that, you know, kind of this movement could spread.

ABDELFATAH: Oh.

ARABLOUEI: And they hoped other people in the country would rise up and you'd have a massive weakening of the Qing and they would collapse44. That was their vision.

CHAN: So that did not turn out to be true.

ARABLOUEI: Their movement was relatively small at that point. And the Qing found out about the invasion ahead of time. So when the revolutionaries got off the boats in Guangzhou, they were met with force by the Qing police.

ABDELFATAH: Oh, no.

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ARABLOUEI: They scattered45. Several of them were captured.

ABDELFATAH: Yikes.

ARABLOUEI: Sun Yat-sen, who was already in the city laying the groundwork for the invasion, managed to escape and left China.

TAN: (As Sun Yat-sen) That day of September 9, 1895, I consider to be the day of my first revolutionary defeat. I cut off my pigtail and put on European clothes, as the date of my return to China was indeterminate.

ARABLOUEI: He wasn't even 30 years old, and he was forced into exile. But that wasn't going to stop him from trying to bring down the Qing dynasty. Not long after leaving China, Sun Yat-sen ended up in a situation in London that turned him into an international figure.

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ARABLOUEI: Part II - a kidnapping in London. So when we left Sun Yat-sen, he became a leader of the anti-Qing movement and failed in his first attempt at an uprising. He became wanted by the Qing government and was forced into exile. He went to Asia, Europe and the United States, asking for money from the Chinese diaspora and support from foreign governments. And in 1896, on one of his trips to London, something unexpected happens.

CHAN: So the story was that he was walking by the Qing Chinese embassy in London.

ARABLOUEI: He was there visiting a British supporter.

CHAN: And somehow, he was either lured46 inside, or he voluntary went inside.

MUHLHAHN: It's not entirely47 clear.

CHAN: And anyway, he was kidnapped.

ARABLOUEI: Well, he said he was kidnapped. According to a book he later wrote about the incident, he was interrogated48 by a Qing agent. In one passage, he asked his captor...

TAN: (As Sun Yat-sen) What do you propose to do with me? And I do not think the government of this country will give me up.

ARABLOUEI: And the Qing agents replied...

XEN WI: (As Qing captor) You are to be bound and gagged and taken from here. Outside Hong Kong harbor, there will be a Chinese gunboat to meet you. And you will be transferred to that and taken to Canton for trial and execution.

ABDELFATAH: Dang. Things got real very quickly.

ARABLOUEI: Yeah. And the interrogations went on for days. But...

CHAN: He was able to talk with the guard that was there. And somehow, he convinced this guard to pass a note to a friend of his.

ARABLOUEI: His friend went to the press and started putting pressure on the British government to get Sun Yat-sen released.

CHAN: And so the whole thing became a headline - a international headline.

ARABLOUEI: Here's one of those headlines from the Globe.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Startling story - conspirator49 kidnapped in London, imprisonment50 at the Chinese embassy.

ARABLOUEI: And so after days of pressure, on October 23, the Chinese embassy agreed to release Sun Yat-sen. The incident made him into kind of a celebrity51.

JEFFREY WASSERSTROM: By kidnapping Sun Yat-sen and having it happen in London and having this become this dramatic story, it makes him a more - far more significant figure than he had been before - certainly more internationally known.

ABDELFATAH: OK. Clearly, Sun Yat-sen, you know, after this incident, is becoming famous. And I get that he was a great fundraiser and organizer and very clearly dedicated52 to getting rid of the Qing.

ARABLOUEI: Yeah.

ABDELFATAH: But did he have a vision for what China could be?

ARABLOUEI: He started really developing a vision while he was in exile.

ABDELFATAH: Oh, OK.

ARABLOUEI: He went through a lot of changes. He started advocating not only against the Qing dynasty, but against the entire dynastic system.

ABDELFATAH: So he's moving from that just reform group, you know, that wants to get rid of the Qing to now, like, let's overhaul53 all of it.

ARABLOUEI: Yeah. And what set him apart is that when he talked about revolution, his ideas weren't necessarily ideological54. He was pragmatic and nationalistic. And because his ideas were all based on a notion of Chinese nationalism and supremacy55, he became a voice many people could agree on.

WASSERSTROM: He could be many different things to many different kinds of people.

ARABLOUEI: That was Jeffrey Wasserstrom. He's a professor at University of California, Irvine.

CHAN: His passion and his charisma56 was something that was able to bring, you know, some of the radical thinkers together under the banner of a revolution for China.

ZHAO MA: Sun Yat-sen believe China has to be modernized and China has to be industrialized, and China has to regain57 its own national independence and also to get the international recognition for China's part in the world affairs.

ARABLOUEI: That's Zhao Ma.

MA: I teach at Washington University in St. Louis in the department of East Asian language and cultures.

TAN: (As Sun Yat-sen) As an example of what I have described, I can refer to the people of the United States of America, constituting one great and terrible whole, but in reality, consisting of many separate nationalities - Germans, Dutch, English, French. Such a nationalism is possible, and we must pursue it.

ARABLOUEI: At the start of the 20th century, the Qing dynasty were still in serious trouble. They were reeling from all their military losses, and unrest in China was becoming more common. Meanwhile, Sun Yat-sen and a lot of anti-Qing activists58 were in exile.

ABDELFATAH: What was Sun Yat-sen doing this whole time?

ARABLOUEI: He's still organizing. He's still doing the things he was doing. But more importantly...

BENITE: He thinks. He thinks, and he writes.

ARABLOUEI: And he fails. He tried to organize rebellion after rebellion that are crushed by the Qing. And many of his comrades were imprisoned59 or died in uprisings. It was a dark time for the anti-Qing movement.

TAN: (As Sun Yat-sen) Amongst the comrades at this time, there was great depression. Most of our fighters were forced to flee and emigrate. We had not sufficient strength to organize all anew. And when we began to talk of our future plans, they all sighed heavily and did not look one another in the eyes. I took the floor and began to tell them the revolutionary wave was growing and broadening day by day, and the spirit of the Chinese was rising.

ARABLOUEI: Despite all the defeats he faced, Sun Yat-sen never gave up. And with time, he became more popular among anti-Qing activists, students and elites. He spent time traveling the world, fundraising and organizing and, as Zvi said, writing. He developed a simple political theory that was a direct response to what he believed were the failings of the Qing dynasty. Today, these ideas may seem basic, but they came to influence the formation of the Chinese Republic. He called them the three principles of the people.

BENITE: Which, in Chinese, we call Sanmin Zhuyi - you know, the three principles of the people.

CHAN: The first principle was...

ARABLOUEI: Minzhu, which means nationalism.

CHAN: So kind of the idea of how, you know, Chinese people should be devoting themselves to building up a strong, modern China and that they should have a clear sense of national identity themselves as Chinese.

MUHLHAHN: The second argument that he's making is...

ARABLOUEI: Minquan, which is democracy.

MUHLHAHN: So he says, we need a new political system that is more democratic, that allows for popular participation60.

BENITE: This is not a democratic party in any sense of the word. There is a sense there, you know, people is like, you know - like infants and children. And you know, the government has to play a father figure.

CHAN: And then the third is livelihood61.

ARABLOUEI: Minsheng.

MUHLHAHN: That means we need to have a better welfare for the people so the people actually have a better life.

CHAN: The idea that maybe we should do something about equalizing land ownership.

BENITE: You know, this is why, for example, he talks about an idea about tutelage capitalism - in other words, a capitalism that is somehow controlled by a certain political power so it doesn't really go crazy.

MUHLHAHN: All these three principles together, of course - they mean only one thing - revolution.

BENITE: The word revolution in its Chinese incarnation becomes very, very important word - in fact, the most frequent in Chinese political discourse62 in the 20th century. You have a revolutionary army. You have a revolutionary that. Everything is a revolution. Everything, you know, must be revolutionized.

ARABLOUEI: In 1911, after years of struggle, a revolution finally happened in China. The Qing dynasty came to an end. Even though Sun Yat-sen and lots of other people had been fighting the Qing for years, the revolution happened kind of randomly63.

WASSERSTROM: It's a harder revolution to tell the story of than a lot of others because it's partly mutinies. It's partly parts of the Qing army that are just fed up and rise up.

MUHLHAHN: It's a chain of events that's almost accidental.

BENITE: It caught everybody by surprise. I mean, when we look at this from today, when we think about a revolution, we think about something that was planned, conspirators64 rising in different locations, you know. And then, you know, in an orchestrated move, that's what they do. That wasn't the case at all.

MUHLHAHN: Province after province decides to secede65.

CHAN: So in just a few months, something like 12 provinces declared independence from the Qing throne.

ABDELFATAH: Wait. They're talking about it like this is no big deal. But, like, the revolution did end thousands of years of dynastic rule in China, right?

ARABLOUEI: Yeah, it totally did. But it wasn't an epic66 revolution like the French Revolution, right? Despite all the effort of the anti-Qing revolutionaries over the years, in 1911, the Qing just lost their authority because of a bunch of local rebellions that weren't really connected to each other.

ABDELFATAH: And so where is Sun Yat-sen in all this?

ARABLOUEI: Well...

WASSERSTROM: Sun Yat-sen himself isn't there. I mean, when the revolution that is most associated with him - this October 1911 revolution - he's in North America doing more fundraising.

CHAN: He was, of all places, in Denver, Colo. So he actually read about the revolution that he's been working for from a paper.

TAN: (As Sun Yat-sen) I woke up the next morning at 11 o'clock and, being hungry, went out to a restaurant. On my way, I bought a newspaper and, arriving at the restaurant, unfolded it. Immediately, my eyes were met by a telegram about the capture of Wuchang by the revolutionary troops.

WASSERSTROM: And he sort of reads about it. It's not that he's not connected with these things or these groups, but there had been all these efforts that didn't go anywhere. And so this is finally the one that we know, in retrospect68, was it.

ABDELFATAH: This is kind of sad for him.

ARABLOUEI: (Laughter) It is kind of sad, but it happened.

ABDELFATAH: Yeah.

ARABLOUEI: He finally had a chance to create a modern Chinese Republic. And this presented an opportunity for Sun Yat-sen. He'd been in the struggle for many years and was widely known among revolutionaries, especially those in the diaspora.

ABDELFATAH: Right. And he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would pass up an opportunity.

ARABLOUEI: Yeah. No, he wouldn't. And he knew at that point, he had to make moves.

MUHLHAHN: Basically, he decides to travel back to China and - because he knows that's a period of change, and he knows that he has to be in China.

WASSERSTROM: He is, by that point, one of the figures who has symbolic69 authority among revolutionaries.

CHAN: So he's respected as this pioneer and this inspirational leader, right? People attributed the spirit, you know, of revolution to him.

TAN: (As Sun Yat-sen) Even before my arrival at Shanghai, all the foreign and Chinese newspapers were spreading widely the story that I was returning home with a large sum of money to help the revolution. When I arrived at Shanghai, both my comrades and the reporters of the foreign and Chinese newspapers expected this. But I replied that I had not brought with me a farthing, but had brought with me a revolutionary spirit...

ARABLOUEI: And on December 29, 1911, he's elected by a small representative committee from various Chinese provinces as the provisional president of the newly formed Republic of China.

TAN: (As Sun Yat-sen) Thus, 30 years passed as one day. And only after the completion did I achieve my principal aim, the aim of my life - the creation of the Chinese Republic.

ABDELFATAH: Uh, what? (Laughter) This dude was just sitting in Colorado and he hasn't been in the country for - what? - 16 years?

ARABLOUEI: Yeah. No, it's true. And I'm sure you're wondering, like, why him? Right?

ABDELFATAH: Yeah.

ARABLOUEI: Well, he was kind of the safest choice because his ideas really emphasized nationalism and strong Chinese identity. These were things many people could get behind. Plus, because of the whole London kidnapping thing, he was kind of a celebrity.

ABDELFATAH: Oh, yeah. I almost forgot about that. So he was just the person most people could agree on.

ARABLOUEI: Yeah. He'd been fighting for a long time, and people respected that. But, like you said, he hadn't lived in China for 16 years. So that presented a major problem.

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CHAN: Sun Yat-sen had no real power base in China.

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MUHLHAHN: He doesn't have a military. He has no military officer that supports him, so he soon realizes that he has very little support in this country.

ARABLOUEI: And that was bad news for Sun Yat-sen and the young Republic of China.

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ARABLOUEI: Soon, he'd have to make a choice between his own power and the well-being70 of the country - a choice that would change China forever.

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ABDELFATAH: Part II - civil war. In 1911, Sun Yat-sen became the provisional president of the Republic of China. But the reality was the young Chinese Republic didn't really have a military, so they were on shaky ground. And Sun Yat-sen's first job was to negotiate the surrender of the last remnants of the Qing dynasty.

ABDELFATAH: Wait. The Qing dynasty? I thought the Qing were gone.

ARABLOUEI: Well, they were - mostly. But the ruling family and their court were still around. They no longer ruled the country, but they still had some military forces loyal to them - enough military that they could negotiate the end of their reign4 with the republic. And so they assigned one of their generals to negotiate with Sun Yat-sen.

CHAN: Delegated this task of negotiation71 to a man named Yuan Shikai...

ARABLOUEI: Yu-an Shi-kai.

CHAN: ...Who is a military commander in the North - very powerful.

ARABLOUEI: And even though Yuan Shikai was supposedly loyal to the Qing, he didn't really use his power to get in the way of the 1911 revolution. He was sophisticated and very ambitious.

CHAN: And he saw this chance as one of his to kind of grow his own power.

ARABLOUEI: He didn't just negotiate for the Qing court, he wanted to be president. So in his mind, it was time for Sun Yat-sen to...

CHAN: Hand over the presidency72 until there's an election.

ARABLOUEI: This is Shelly Chen again.

CHAN: Sun Yat-sen knew that in order to make sure there's a peaceful transition and not have the country fall into a period of civil war, that maybe the best way is to hand over the presidency to Yuan.

ABDELFATAH: I don't get it. Why would Sun Yat-sen hand over power?

MUHLHAHN: He knew that he simply couldn't command the military forces and the support that he would need to build this new republic. I mean, so it's - clearly, he put country first.

CHAN: I think he thought, you know, that's best for the country at the time. He's certainly not someone who's after personal glory or ambition. He's certain - probably the opposite of Yuan Shikai.

MUHLHAHN: Who then has only one intention and ambition - to become a new emperor and to create a new dynasty.

CHAN: He made no secret about his contempt for political debate. And that forced kind of Sun Yat-sen and his associates to lead a - what's known as a second revolution.

MUHLHAHN: I think it tells us a lot about the persistence73 of these revolutionaries that they say, no, we don't give up. We start a second revolution. So they go to Canton in the South of China, and that becomes the new base for the republic movement.

ARABLOUEI: Like the old man in the fable, Sun Yat-sen seemed to believe that if they kept working...

BENITE: They worked and they worked...

ARABLOUEI: ...The heavens would move the mountains for them.

TAN: (As Sun Yat-sen) The Chinese people of 400 million was, from ancient times, a slave of the autocracy74 and did not know in the past that it was master. When at last, it did learn, for a long time, it did not dare to be master. Yet sooner or later, it must do so. What was it that gave the Chinese people the chance? Was it not the revolution, which destroyed monarchy75?

ARABLOUEI: And in 1915, just three years after the republic was formed, Yuan Shikai declared himself emperor of China. But that would be very short-lived because he couldn't really hold things together. In 1916, Shikai got sick, gave up the monarchy and then died. This left a power vacuum.

BENITE: So one of the things that we see is a period of what we called the period of warlords. What happened is the Imperial army disintegrated76 into different generals who, like, took out chunks77 of the army, created their own armies now. Each one of them is not strong enough to conquer all of China and united, you know, under their government, yes, but strong enough basically to call the shots.

MUHLHAHN: It's a mess. It's warlords all over the place.

ARABLOUEI: Power kept changing hands.

MUHLHAHN: Chaos78.

ARABLOUEI: There were battles happening everywhere.

MUHLHAHN: Poverty - some areas develop but...

ARABLOUEI: But for the most part, life in China was really, really hard.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

ARABLOUEI: So in the middle of all that chaos, Sun Yat-sen was in the south, where he was out of reach of the warlords, who were mostly based in the north. And he started thinking about rebranding and reorganizing the political party that was behind all of their efforts. It was called the Kuomintang.

BENITE: Which we call it in English the Nationalist Party. At the same time, he understands that in order to defeat the warlords, in order to unite China, they need an army.

ARABLOUEI: They needed weapons and training, and they started looking for help from other countries.

MUHLHAHN: And so not only him but a lot of people - leaders thought - especially those who still believed in the republic thought that they will get help and support from the Western countries. But, of course, that help didn't come.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

ABDELFATAH: I don't understand why they thought they would get help from Western countries. I mean, they've been fighting for decades and the revolution, ultimately, just kind of devolved into chaos and suffering, right? Then here they are again, being led by Sun Yat-sen, trying to start another revolution.

ARABLOUEI: Yeah.

ABDELFATAH: I mean, where did they find the energy or the strength or motivation to do that?

ARABLOUEI: This was probably Sun Yat-sen's strongest trait - persistence. He just didn't give up. And even though the nationalist situation looked really bleak79, something happened in 1917 that changed things.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (Singing in Russian).

ARABLOUEI: The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia. Initially, Sun Yat-sen wasn't very excited about the communists.

MUHLHAHN: He is very skeptical80 when it comes to Lenin and the Bolsheviks and communism.

BENITE: But after the Bolshevik revolutions, you know, the Bolsheviks, with regards to China, they make interesting statements. And they say, well, you know, we're going to return to China all the territories that the czarist empire took.

ARABLOUEI: For the record, they didn't really keep that promise.

BENITE: But you can imagine how this news is received in China.

ARABLOUEI: Because remember. This was a few years after World War I, and China fought on behalf of the Allies in that war. But they still didn't get many concessions81, except from Russia. And even though most nationalists, including Sun Yat-sen, were not communists...

CHAN: This outstretched hand of foreign aid appealed to him.

ARABLOUEI: That was the only country, according to him, that was interested in helping82 him.

CHAN: So he accepted Soviet83 advisers84, money and weapons and of course also the training of an armed force that could be used to the task of reunifying China.

BENITE: They will train people in Moscow in military academies.

ARABLOUEI: But there's a catch. The Soviets85 wanted the Nationalist Party to work directly with the small, fledgling Chinese Communist Party.

BENITE: The deal is Chinese communists will join the Kuomintang or the Nationalist Party as individuals. In other words, it's not going to be a faction86 within the party.

ARABLOUEI: And so the idea was these two groups would unite, take on the warlords and finally make China into a republic. They called it the United Front.

BENITE: They're going to form an army.

CHAN: The two forces will work together.

BENITE: The army is supposed to, basically, invade the north from the south.

ABDELFATAH: All right. Given their track record, why does anyone think this is going to work?

ARABLOUEI: Because they had a common goal.

BENITE: To get rid of the warlords and unite China. They'll worry about everything else later.

ARABLOUEI: And as you'll soon find out, that's going to be a problem.

ABDELFATAH: I bet.

ARABLOUEI: But anyway, both parties had their roles in United Front. The communists...

MA: So they are good at the mass movement to educate the mass on why the revolution is important, on why the United Front, the communist party and the national party together - that's the solution for China's future.

ARABLOUEI: That's Zhao Ma.

MA: And also, they know how to work with the local peasant groups and to uproot87 the local power holders88.

ARABLOUEI: And the nationalists were led by Sun Yat-sen as the political leader. And then there's someone named Chiang Kai-shek who became the military leader - the general of the army.

MA: Their main job is the fighting because they have the - they control the military force. They do that part of the work.

ARABLOUEI: Their mission was called the Northern Expedition. And it was simple - move north and end the period of the warlords. They were funded by the Soviets. They were highly motivated. But there were some problems in the relationship between the communists and the nationalists from the start.

MA: They have a deep divide in terms of, what is the future of this new country? And so, should this be controlled by the urban bourgeoisie or should this include the peasant and urban working class?

ARABLOUEI: And Sun Yat-sen was able to hold together this really shaky union all with the goal of militarily taking back the country.

ABDELFATAH: I feel like he's always kind of served that role - right? Like...

ARABLOUEI: Yeah.

ABDELFATAH: ...Holding things together.

ARABLOUEI: Exactly, because he was a realist.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

WASSERSTROM: He was kind of like, if things will help us toward this key goal, we can work with many different kinds of people. There were people within the Nationalist Party who didn't see things that way.

ARABLOUEI: And that included Sun Yat-sen's top general, Chiang Kai-shek, who was very suspicious of the communists.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

ARABLOUEI: Despite all of the years of struggle and loss, the United Front seemed poised89 to take on the warlords and put the Chinese Republic back together. They had everything lined up and were preparing for their Northern Expedition. And that's when, in 1924, Sun Yat-sen fell ill while travelling. He was diagnosed with cancer, and he died within a matter of months. He was 58 years old.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

ARABLOUEI: In many ways, he was the glue that held together the United Front. And suddenly, he was gone. There was an immediate67 fracture in the already fragile United Front. And Chiang Kai-shek became the new political leader. And even though the Northern Expedition eventually succeeded in getting rid of the warlords and establishing a Chinese Republic, Chiang Kai-shek took a hard line towards the communists. And soon, a civil war broke out between the groups. That would begin yet another period of war, chaos and destruction in China.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

ABDELFATAH: Man. So Sun Yat-sen never really saw the things he fought for become a reality.

ARABLOUEI: No, not really. But in a way, his death froze his legacy90 in time. He didn't have to get involved in all the messiness that was going to come next. And many of those early ideas he had for China, like his three principles - nationalism, democracy and welfare - they stayed relevant. Nationalists and communists adopted those ideas, and they respected him. And over time, his legacy would become mythological91. He wasn't a Western capitalist, and he wasn't a communist. But he just kind of had the right ideas for that time.

ABDELFATAH: Wait. I feel like he had the right ideas at the wrong time in some ways.

ARABLOUEI: I mean...

(LAUGHTER)

ARABLOUEI: You could say that, too. But the thing is he just kind of had that right balance of Chinese nationalism and modernism. And his own complicated relationship with the West has come to kind of define China's foreign policy today in a lot of ways. So his legacy and what his example means for modern China is really important. It's a window into the deep nationalism and historical pride that's fueled the recent kind of economic growth of the People's Republic of China.

ABDELFATAH: So, like, despite all of his failures, really, like, throughout his life, I mean, do you think that the sum result of both his legacy and then what followed - was that the dream of modern China, you know, as he saw it; that it did come true?

ARABLOUEI: That's actually a really good question. Some of those dreams did come true, I think, but not all of them. And I think Klaus Muhlhahn summed it up best.

MUHLHAHN: I think he dreamed of a modern China. And modern also meaning here, you know, technological progress; modern in terms of economic development. He also dreamt of a China that is politically modern; a republic with elections, in the end, with political participation. So when he died, two dreams that he had dreamt, namely technological progress as well as economic development, that is still taken over by other leaders. But this political dream - that actually died with Sun Yat-sen.

TAN: (As Sun Yat-sen) However, I still begin the writing of this book, first of all, for the purpose of crushing the enemy with the help of my theory. And leading the thoughts of my Chinese fellow countrymen out of the blind alley92 in which they are at present. Then they will not look on my program as a utopia. And millions of them will be my sympathizers, will fight for the reconstruction93 of China, will consolidate94 the republic and will create a government by the people, of the people and for the people. I believe in this since I believe in the Chinese people.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

YAT-SEN SUN: (Speaking Chinese).

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

ABDELFATAH: That's it for this week's show. I'm Rund Abdelfatah.

ARABLOUEI: I'm Ramtin Arablouei. And you've been listening to THROUGHLINE from NPR.

ABDELFATAH: This show was made by me.

ARABLOUEI: And me.

ABDELFATAH: And...

JAMIE YORK, BYLINE95: Jamie York.

JORDANA HOCHMAN, BYLINE: Jordana Hochman.

LAWRENCE WU, BYLINE: Lawrence Wu.

N'JERI EATON, BYLINE: (Laughter) Smizing - N'Jeri Eaton.

ABDELFATAH: Original music was produced by Ramtin and his band Drop Electric.

ARABLOUEI: Thanks also to Lu Olkowski.

ABDELFATAH: Anya Grundmann.

ARABLOUEI: Anthony Kuhn.

ABDELFATAH: Rachel Brown.

ARABLOUEI: Chris Turpin.

ABDELFATAH: And a special thank-you to Jonathan Tan (ph) and Wen Xi Chen (ph) for playing Sun Yat-sen and his captor.

ARABLOUEI: If you like this episode or you have an idea, please write us at [email protected] or find us on Twitter @throughlinenpr.

ABDELFATAH: Thanks for listening.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)


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1 fable CzRyn     
n.寓言;童话;神话
参考例句:
  • The fable is given on the next page. 这篇寓言登在下一页上。
  • He had some motive in telling this fable. 他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
2 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
3 dismantling 3d7840646b80ddcdce2dd04e396f7138     
(枪支)分解
参考例句:
  • The new government set about dismantling their predecessors' legislation. 新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律。
  • The dismantling of a nuclear reprocessing plant caused a leak of radioactivity yesterday. 昨天拆除核后处理工厂引起了放射物泄漏。
4 reign pBbzx     
n.统治时期,统治,支配,盛行;v.占优势
参考例句:
  • The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.伊丽莎白王朝延至17世纪。
  • The reign of Zhu Yuanzhang lasted about 31 years.朱元璋统治了大约三十一年。
5 imperialism jc1zE     
n.帝国主义,帝国主义政策
参考例句:
  • They held the imperialism in contempt.他们鄙视帝国主义。
  • Imperialism has not been able to subjugate China.帝国主义不能征服中国。
6 deviate kl9zv     
v.(from)背离,偏离
参考例句:
  • Don't deviate from major issues.不要偏离主要问题。
  • I will never deviate from what I believe to be right.我绝不背离我自信正确的道路。
7 alluding ac37fbbc50fb32efa49891d205aa5a0a     
提及,暗指( allude的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • He didn't mention your name but I was sure he was alluding to you. 他没提你的名字,但是我确信他是暗指你的。
  • But in fact I was alluding to my physical deficiencies. 可我实在是为自己的容貌寒心。
8 technological gqiwY     
adj.技术的;工艺的
参考例句:
  • A successful company must keep up with the pace of technological change.一家成功的公司必须得跟上技术变革的步伐。
  • Today,the pace of life is increasing with technological advancements.当今, 随着科技进步,生活节奏不断增快。
9 elites e3dbb5fd6596e7194920c56f4830b949     
精华( elite的名词复数 ); 精锐; 上层集团; (统称)掌权人物
参考例句:
  • The elites are by their nature a factor contributing to underdevelopment. 这些上层人物天生是助长欠发达的因素。
  • Elites always detest gifted and nimble outsiders. 社会名流对天赋聪明、多才多艺的局外人一向嫌恶。
10 relatively bkqzS3     
adv.比较...地,相对地
参考例句:
  • The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
  • The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
11 mere rC1xE     
adj.纯粹的;仅仅,只不过
参考例句:
  • That is a mere repetition of what you said before.那不过是重复了你以前讲的话。
  • It's a mere waste of time waiting any longer.再等下去纯粹是浪费时间。
12 ethnic jiAz3     
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
参考例句:
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏,这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
13 humiliation Jd3zW     
n.羞辱
参考例句:
  • He suffered the humiliation of being forced to ask for his cards.他蒙受了被迫要求辞职的羞辱。
  • He will wish to revenge his humiliation in last Season's Final.他会为在上个季度的决赛中所受的耻辱而报复的。
14 fervor sgEzr     
n.热诚;热心;炽热
参考例句:
  • They were concerned only with their own religious fervor.他们只关心自己的宗教热诚。
  • The speech aroused nationalist fervor.这个演讲喚起了民族主义热情。
15 modernize SEixp     
vt.使现代化,使适应现代的需要
参考例句:
  • It was their manifest failure to modernize the country's industries.他们使国家进行工业现代化,明显失败了。
  • There is a pressing need to modernise our electoral system.我们的选举制度迫切需要现代化。
16 modernized 4754ec096b71366cfd27a164df163ef2     
使现代化,使适应现代需要( modernize的过去式和过去分词 ); 现代化,使用现代方法
参考例句:
  • By 1985 the entire railway network will have been modernized. 等到1985年整个铁路网就实现现代化了。
  • He set about rebuilding France, and made it into a brilliant-looking modernized imperialism. 他试图重建法国,使它成为一项表面华丽的现代化帝业。
17 underlying 5fyz8c     
adj.在下面的,含蓄的,潜在的
参考例句:
  • The underlying theme of the novel is very serious.小说隐含的主题是十分严肃的。
  • This word has its underlying meaning.这个单词有它潜在的含义。
18 fully Gfuzd     
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
参考例句:
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
19 embodies 6b48da551d6920b8da8eb01ebc400297     
v.表现( embody的第三人称单数 );象征;包括;包含
参考例句:
  • The new treaty embodies the aspirations of most nonaligned countries. 新条约体现了大多数不结盟国家的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • This document embodies the concern of the government for the deformity. 这个文件体现了政府对残疾人的关怀。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
20 intriguing vqyzM1     
adj.有趣的;迷人的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的现在分词);激起…的好奇心
参考例句:
  • These discoveries raise intriguing questions. 这些发现带来了非常有趣的问题。
  • It all sounds very intriguing. 这些听起来都很有趣。 来自《简明英汉词典》
21 illustrates a03402300df9f3e3716d9eb11aae5782     
给…加插图( illustrate的第三人称单数 ); 说明; 表明; (用示例、图画等)说明
参考例句:
  • This historical novel illustrates the breaking up of feudal society in microcosm. 这部历史小说是走向崩溃的封建社会的缩影。
  • Alfred Adler, a famous doctor, had an experience which illustrates this. 阿尔弗莱德 - 阿德勒是一位著名的医生,他有过可以说明这点的经历。 来自中级百科部分
22 toiled 599622ddec16892278f7d146935604a3     
长时间或辛苦地工作( toil的过去式和过去分词 ); 艰难缓慢地移动,跋涉
参考例句:
  • They toiled up the hill in the blazing sun. 他们冒着炎炎烈日艰难地一步一步爬上山冈。
  • He toiled all day long but earned very little. 他整天劳碌但挣得很少。
23 consecrated consecrated     
adj.神圣的,被视为神圣的v.把…奉为神圣,给…祝圣( consecrate的过去式和过去分词 );奉献
参考例句:
  • The church was consecrated in 1853. 这座教堂于1853年祝圣。
  • They consecrated a temple to their god. 他们把庙奉献给神。 来自《简明英汉词典》
24 aspired 379d690dd1367e3bafe9aa80ae270d77     
v.渴望,追求( aspire的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • She aspired to a scientific career. 她有志于科学事业。
  • Britain,France,the United States and Japan all aspired to hegemony after the end of World War I. 第一次世界大战后,英、法、美、日都想争夺霸权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
25 yearned df1a28ecd1f3c590db24d0d80c264305     
渴望,切盼,向往( yearn的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The people yearned for peace. 人民渴望和平。
  • She yearned to go back to the south. 她渴望回到南方去。
26 devastating muOzlG     
adj.毁灭性的,令人震惊的,强有力的
参考例句:
  • It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
  • Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
27 laborer 52xxc     
n.劳动者,劳工
参考例句:
  • Her husband had been a farm laborer.她丈夫以前是个农场雇工。
  • He worked as a casual laborer and did not earn much.他当临时工,没有赚多少钱。
28 admiration afpyA     
n.钦佩,赞美,羡慕
参考例句:
  • He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
  • We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。
29 undoubtedly Mfjz6l     
adv.确实地,无疑地
参考例句:
  • It is undoubtedly she who has said that.这话明明是她说的。
  • He is undoubtedly the pride of China.毫无疑问他是中国的骄傲。
30 blasphemous Co4yV     
adj.亵渎神明的,不敬神的
参考例句:
  • The book was declared blasphemous and all copies ordered to be burnt.这本书被断定为亵渎神明之作,命令全数焚毀。
  • The people in the room were shocked by his blasphemous language.满屋的人都对他那侮慢的语言感到愤慨。
31 missionary ID8xX     
adj.教会的,传教(士)的;n.传教士
参考例句:
  • She taught in a missionary school for a couple of years.她在一所教会学校教了两年书。
  • I hope every member understands the value of missionary work. 我希望教友都了解传教工作的价值。
32 Christians 28e6e30f94480962cc721493f76ca6c6     
n.基督教徒( Christian的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Christians of all denominations attended the conference. 基督教所有教派的人都出席了这次会议。
  • His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians. 他关于耶稣的小说激起了基督教徒的公愤。
33 capitalism er4zy     
n.资本主义
参考例句:
  • The essence of his argument is that capitalism cannot succeed.他的论点的核心是资本主义不能成功。
  • Capitalism began to develop in Russia in the 19th century.十九世纪资本主义在俄国开始发展。
34 radical hA8zu     
n.激进份子,原子团,根号;adj.根本的,激进的,彻底的
参考例句:
  • The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
  • She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
35 initially 273xZ     
adv.最初,开始
参考例句:
  • The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
  • Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
36 passionate rLDxd     
adj.热情的,热烈的,激昂的,易动情的,易怒的,性情暴躁的
参考例句:
  • He is said to be the most passionate man.据说他是最有激情的人。
  • He is very passionate about the project.他对那个项目非常热心。
37 implemented a0211e5272f6fc75ac06e2d62558aff0     
v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 );执行;贯彻;使生效
参考例句:
  • This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革,经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句
38 activist gyAzO     
n.活动分子,积极分子
参考例句:
  • He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
  • He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
39 backwards BP9ya     
adv.往回地,向原处,倒,相反,前后倒置地
参考例句:
  • He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
  • All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。
40 forth Hzdz2     
adv.向前;向外,往外
参考例句:
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
41 sneak vr2yk     
vt.潜行(隐藏,填石缝);偷偷摸摸做;n.潜行;adj.暗中进行
参考例句:
  • He raised his spear and sneak forward.他提起长矛悄悄地前进。
  • I saw him sneak away from us.我看见他悄悄地从我们身边走开。
42 conspiracy NpczE     
n.阴谋,密谋,共谋
参考例句:
  • The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
  • He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。
43 margins 18cef75be8bf936fbf6be827537c8585     
边( margin的名词复数 ); 利润; 页边空白; 差数
参考例句:
  • They have always had to make do with relatively small profit margins. 他们不得不经常设法应付较少的利润额。
  • To create more space between the navigation items, add left and right margins to the links. 在每个项目间留更多的空隙,加左或者右的margins来定义链接。
44 collapse aWvyE     
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
参考例句:
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
45 scattered 7jgzKF     
adj.分散的,稀疏的;散步的;疏疏落落的
参考例句:
  • Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来,塞进文件夹里。
46 lured 77df5632bf83c9c64fb09403ae21e649     
吸引,引诱(lure的过去式与过去分词形式)
参考例句:
  • The child was lured into a car but managed to escape. 那小孩被诱骗上了车,但又设法逃掉了。
  • Lured by the lust of gold,the pioneers pushed onward. 开拓者在黄金的诱惑下,继续奋力向前。
47 entirely entirely     
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
48 interrogated dfdeced7e24bd32e0007124bbc34eb71     
v.询问( interrogate的过去式和过去分词 );审问;(在计算机或其他机器上)查询
参考例句:
  • He was interrogated by the police for over 12 hours. 他被警察审问了12个多小时。
  • Two suspects are now being interrogated in connection with the killing. 与杀人案有关的两名嫌疑犯正在接受审讯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
49 conspirator OZayz     
n.阴谋者,谋叛者
参考例句:
  • We started abusing him,one conspirator after another adding his bitter words.我们这几个预谋者一个接一个地咒骂他,恶狠狠地骂个不停。
  • A conspirator is not of the stuff to bear surprises.谋反者是经不起惊吓的。
50 imprisonment I9Uxk     
n.关押,监禁,坐牢
参考例句:
  • His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
  • He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。
51 celebrity xcRyQ     
n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
参考例句:
  • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
  • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。
52 dedicated duHzy2     
adj.一心一意的;献身的;热诚的
参考例句:
  • He dedicated his life to the cause of education.他献身于教育事业。
  • His whole energies are dedicated to improve the design.他的全部精力都放在改进这项设计上了。
53 overhaul yKGxy     
v./n.大修,仔细检查
参考例句:
  • Master Worker Wang is responsible for the overhaul of this grinder.王师傅主修这台磨床。
  • It is generally appreciated that the rail network needs a complete overhaul.众所周知,铁路系统需要大检修。
54 ideological bq3zi8     
a.意识形态的
参考例句:
  • He always tries to link his study with his ideological problems. 他总是把学习和自己的思想问题联系起来。
  • He helped me enormously with advice on how to do ideological work. 他告诉我怎样做思想工作,对我有很大帮助。
55 supremacy 3Hzzd     
n.至上;至高权力
参考例句:
  • No one could challenge her supremacy in gymnastics.她是最优秀的体操运动员,无人能胜过她。
  • Theoretically,she holds supremacy as the head of the state.从理论上说,她作为国家的最高元首拥有至高无上的权力。
56 charisma uX3ze     
n.(大众爱戴的)领袖气质,魅力
参考例句:
  • He has enormous charisma. He is a giant of a man.他有超凡的个人魅力,是个伟人。
  • I don't have the charisma to pull a crowd this size.我没有那么大的魅力,能吸引这么多人。
57 regain YkYzPd     
vt.重新获得,收复,恢复
参考例句:
  • He is making a bid to regain his World No.1 ranking.他正为重登世界排名第一位而努力。
  • The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.政府急于重新获取公众的信任。
58 activists 90fd83cc3f53a40df93866d9c91bcca4     
n.(政治活动的)积极分子,活动家( activist的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
  • Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
59 imprisoned bc7d0bcdd0951055b819cfd008ef0d8d     
下狱,监禁( imprison的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He was imprisoned for two concurrent terms of 30 months and 18 months. 他被判处30个月和18个月的监禁,合并执行。
  • They were imprisoned for possession of drugs. 他们因拥有毒品而被监禁。
60 participation KS9zu     
n.参与,参加,分享
参考例句:
  • Some of the magic tricks called for audience participation.有些魔术要求有观众的参与。
  • The scheme aims to encourage increased participation in sporting activities.这个方案旨在鼓励大众更多地参与体育活动。
61 livelihood sppzWF     
n.生计,谋生之道
参考例句:
  • Appropriate arrangements will be made for their work and livelihood.他们的工作和生活会得到妥善安排。
  • My father gained a bare livelihood of family by his own hands.父亲靠自己的双手勉强维持家计。
62 discourse 2lGz0     
n.论文,演说;谈话;话语;vi.讲述,著述
参考例句:
  • We'll discourse on the subject tonight.我们今晚要谈论这个问题。
  • He fell into discourse with the customers who were drinking at the counter.他和站在柜台旁的酒客谈了起来。
63 randomly cktzBM     
adv.随便地,未加计划地
参考例句:
  • Within the hot gas chamber, molecules are moving randomly in all directions. 在灼热的气体燃烧室内,分子在各个方向上作无规运动。 来自辞典例句
  • Transformed cells are loosely attached, rounded and randomly oriented. 转化细胞则不大贴壁、圆缩并呈杂乱分布。 来自辞典例句
64 conspirators d40593710e3e511cb9bb9ec2b74bccc3     
n.共谋者,阴谋家( conspirator的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The conspirators took no part in the fighting which ensued. 密谋者没有参加随后发生的战斗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The French conspirators were forced to escape very hurriedly. 法国同谋者被迫匆促逃亡。 来自辞典例句
65 secede iEwyt     
v.退出,脱离
参考例句:
  • They plotted to make the whole Mississippi Valley secede from the United States.他们阴谋策划使整个密西西比流域脱离美国。
  • We won't allow Tibet to secede from China and become an independent nation.我们决不允许西藏脱离中国独立。
66 epic ui5zz     
n.史诗,叙事诗;adj.史诗般的,壮丽的
参考例句:
  • I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗,而写了这个小故事。
  • They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。
67 immediate aapxh     
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
参考例句:
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
68 retrospect xDeys     
n.回顾,追溯;v.回顾,回想,追溯
参考例句:
  • One's school life seems happier in retrospect than in reality.学校生活回忆起来显得比实际上要快乐。
  • In retrospect,it's easy to see why we were wrong.回顾过去就很容易明白我们的错处了。
69 symbolic ErgwS     
adj.象征性的,符号的,象征主义的
参考例句:
  • It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
  • The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。
70 well-being Fe3zbn     
n.安康,安乐,幸福
参考例句:
  • He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。
  • My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我关心他们的幸福,却被误解为多管闲事。
71 negotiation FGWxc     
n.谈判,协商
参考例句:
  • They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判,他们的食糖生意成交了。
  • The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。
72 presidency J1HzD     
n.总统(校长,总经理)的职位(任期)
参考例句:
  • Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。
73 persistence hSLzh     
n.坚持,持续,存留
参考例句:
  • The persistence of a cough in his daughter puzzled him.他女儿持续的咳嗽把他难住了。
  • He achieved success through dogged persistence.他靠着坚持不懈取得了成功。
74 autocracy WuDzp     
n.独裁政治,独裁政府
参考例句:
  • The revolution caused the overthrow of the autocracy.这场革命导致了独裁政体的结束。
  • Many poor countries are abandoning autocracy.很多贫穷国家都在放弃独裁统治。
75 monarchy e6Azi     
n.君主,最高统治者;君主政体,君主国
参考例句:
  • The monarchy in England plays an important role in British culture.英格兰的君主政体在英国文化中起重要作用。
  • The power of the monarchy in Britain today is more symbolical than real.今日英国君主的权力多为象徵性的,无甚实际意义。
76 disintegrated e36fb4ffadd6df797ee64cbd05a02790     
v.(使)破裂[分裂,粉碎],(使)崩溃( disintegrate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • The plane disintegrated as it fell into the sea. 飞机坠入大海时解体了。
  • The box was so old;it just disintegrated when I picked it up. 那箱子太破旧了,我刚一提就散了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
77 chunks a0e6aa3f5109dc15b489f628b2f01028     
厚厚的一块( chunk的名词复数 ); (某物)相当大的数量或部分
参考例句:
  • a tin of pineapple chunks 一罐菠萝块
  • Those chunks of meat are rather large—could you chop them up a bIt'smaller? 这些肉块相当大,还能再切小一点吗?
78 chaos 7bZyz     
n.混乱,无秩序
参考例句:
  • After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后,城市一片混乱。
  • The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。
79 bleak gtWz5     
adj.(天气)阴冷的;凄凉的;暗淡的
参考例句:
  • They showed me into a bleak waiting room.他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
  • The company's prospects look pretty bleak.这家公司的前景异常暗淡。
80 skeptical MxHwn     
adj.怀疑的,多疑的
参考例句:
  • Others here are more skeptical about the chances for justice being done.这里的其他人更为怀疑正义能否得到伸张。
  • Her look was skeptical and resigned.她的表情是将信将疑而又无可奈何。
81 concessions 6b6f497aa80aaf810133260337506fa9     
n.(尤指由政府或雇主给予的)特许权( concession的名词复数 );承认;减价;(在某地的)特许经营权
参考例句:
  • The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike. 要想避免罢工,公司将不得不作出一些让步。
  • The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
82 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
参考例句:
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
83 Soviet Sw9wR     
adj.苏联的,苏维埃的;n.苏维埃
参考例句:
  • Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
  • Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
84 advisers d4866a794d72d2a666da4e4803fdbf2e     
顾问,劝告者( adviser的名词复数 ); (指导大学新生学科问题等的)指导教授
参考例句:
  • a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
  • She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。
85 soviets 95fd70e5832647dcf39beb061b21c75e     
苏维埃(Soviet的复数形式)
参考例句:
  • A public challenge could provoke the Soviets to dig in. 公开挑战会促使苏联人一意孤行。
  • The Soviets proposed the withdrawal of American ballistic-missile submarines from forward bases. 苏联人建议把美国的弹道导弹潜艇从前沿基地撤走。
86 faction l7ny7     
n.宗派,小集团;派别;派系斗争
参考例句:
  • Faction and self-interest appear to be the norm.派系之争和自私自利看来非常普遍。
  • I now understood clearly that I was caught between the king and the Bunam's faction.我现在完全明白自己已陷入困境,在国王与布纳姆集团之间左右为难。
87 uproot 3jCwL     
v.连根拔起,拔除;根除,灭绝;赶出家园,被迫移开
参考例句:
  • The family decided to uproot themselves and emigrate to Australia.他们全家决定离开故土,移居澳大利亚。
  • The trunk of an elephant is powerful enough to uproot trees.大象的长鼻强壮得足以将树木连根拔起。
88 holders 79c0e3bbb1170e3018817c5f45ebf33f     
支持物( holder的名词复数 ); 持有者; (支票等)持有人; 支托(或握持)…之物
参考例句:
  • Slaves were mercilessly ground down by slave holders. 奴隶受奴隶主的残酷压迫。
  • It is recognition of compassion's part that leads the up-holders of capital punishment to accuse the abolitionists of sentimentality in being more sorry for the murderer than for his victim. 正是对怜悯的作用有了认识,才使得死刑的提倡者指控主张废除死刑的人感情用事,同情谋杀犯胜过同情受害者。
89 poised SlhzBU     
a.摆好姿势不动的
参考例句:
  • The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋,准备俯冲。
  • Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张,手悬在电话机上。
90 legacy 59YzD     
n.遗产,遗赠;先人(或过去)留下的东西
参考例句:
  • They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
  • He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。
91 mythological BFaxL     
adj.神话的
参考例句:
  • He is remembered for his historical and mythological works. 他以其带有历史感和神话色彩的作品而著称。
  • But even so, the cumulative process had for most Americans a deep, almost mythological significance. 不过即使如此,移民渐增的过程,对于大部分美国人,还是意味深长的,几乎有不可思议的影响。
92 alley Cx2zK     
n.小巷,胡同;小径,小路
参考例句:
  • We live in the same alley.我们住在同一条小巷里。
  • The blind alley ended in a brick wall.这条死胡同的尽头是砖墙。
93 reconstruction 3U6xb     
n.重建,再现,复原
参考例句:
  • The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后,该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
  • In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期,技术决定一切。
94 consolidate XYkyV     
v.使加固,使加强;(把...)联为一体,合并
参考例句:
  • The two banks will consolidate in July next year. 这两家银行明年7月将合并。
  • The government hoped to consolidate ten states to form three new ones.政府希望把十个州合并成三个新的州。
95 byline sSXyQ     
n.署名;v.署名
参考例句:
  • His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
  • We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。
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