This is the second post triggered by my online readers (marked as * below). Some of them have sent emails about the book’s subject since February. I forwarded the emails to some of my Chinese American friends (as # below) who have similar experience with me for comments.
*In the author’s note, you mentioned the feeling of déjà vu twice. Can you summarize the trajectory and enlightenment of their development?
Evil usually wears different clothes of beauty and carries out similar conspiracies in different historical periods. This pattern of behavior, coupled with the easily recognizable, evil cultural gene, was originally beneficial to mankind. Regrettably, in the past more than a century, history has moved in the opposite direction. First, communism almost destroyed the Chinese civilization in the East. It has also not stopped damaging Christian civilization and now caused serious cultural distortions. These developments are intersecting with my life and are now prompting me to speak out.
* Do you have any partisanship in the United States?
Absolutely not. For those who choose to be Americans for freedom and dignity, there is only a choice of values that can form judgments. For example, the various manifestations of critical racial theory in the United States always remind me of how class struggle theory harm China. Both are evil theories that provoke and divide the crowd and artificially create contradictions and struggles. For another example, the cancel culture in the United States and eliminating the four old in China are both the prelude to the catastrophe of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
These modern cultural distortions are not exclusive to specific parties but have a greater impact on the Democratic Party now. Usually, the propaganda of democratic socialism is very deceptive. Therefore, many people who care about disadvantaged groups with kind-hearted are often easily fooled. For more than a century, many upright and kind people in the Soviet Union and China have paid a blood price for this.
*Is this crisis as serious as you said? #If you only focus on the CCP’s threat and do not involve domestic issues in the United States for the time being, will it be easier to be understood?
I originally considered avoiding the domestic issues. Regrettably, the depth of cultural distortions has far exceeded my expectations and become the main breakthrough point for the CCP to attack the United States. Many relevant facts in the past few years have left me stunned. The evil usually appears in unobtrusive or unbelievable places, so that its harm becomes even greater.
A giant monster raised by Western capital and high technology has entered the hinterland of the free world, trying to establish its new world order according to its will. It sometimes cooperates with the Western radical left and sometimes confronts. What we all face is indeed an unprecedented crisis related to the survival of the United States and of human civilization. I must report to the reader how the truth emerges from behind these unimaginable facts.
*This book has a clear political theme. Why did you choose the memoir genre? # After choosing this genre, how do you plan to develop such a political theme?
First, this is a last resort choice after nearly 30 years of rational appeals have yielded little effect. With this literary genre, I am trying to find a balance between narrative, lyricism, and logical reasoning so that readers can make their own conclusions. Second, this is another last resort option to avoid the trap of the radical left. For nearly a century, the self-righteous radical left scholars have been creating all kinds of vague vocabulary and so-called theories. If we get involved in their languages game, we will waste everyone’s precious time in vain. Choosing the literary genre of memoirs will help to use common sense to communicate with readers and make logical reasoning together.
One of my alumni suggested the title of the memoir: ” My Life: From Communist China to Yale.” This is indeed the perfect script for a person to escape from hell to heaven. But in the real world, what replaces excitement and pride is confusion and anxiety about crisis of the Freedom Beacon. So, this should not be a personal memoir that uses suffering to gain sympathy. It must help readers love the power of reason and be able to focus on social toxins that endanger their descendants through rational analysis. The process of literary creation should properly handle the transition from narrative and lyric to logical reasoning.
To my dear online readers: Thank you again for your emails and welcome more feedback and comments. Allow me to cite a little from Chapter 4 of this book as the end of this article.
On my way returning home to McLean, Virginia, I made a stop on Theodore Roosevelt Island. Since we moved back to the East Coast in 2012 after I retired, this island has become my habitual stop. It was an enjoyment for me walking around in the Memorial Plaza on the island and reading the quotes on granite monoliths. Someone told me that President Theodore Roosevelt is the shaper of modern America. This idea makes sense to me. I have a deep impression about how he overcame his health problems by embracing a strenuous lifestyle. I respect his exuberant personality defined by robust masculinity. This should represent a special aspect of American spirit. How could a country with such spiritual fire bow her head to an obscene force like the CCP? Should this great country still have those pretentious elitists as policy maker? I prayed that the sleeping America will wake up soon.
It was “My Way” by Frank Sinatra, playing on the radio while I was driving home from the island. I was not sure when the final curtain would drop to me, but sure it was approaching. I must do whatever I should effectively before the time comes. Yeah, do it my way.
(07/21/2021)