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Jimmy Su :
Not everyone has needs and aptitudes for art appreciation, but I have never understood how China has spoiled the beauty of ordinary people’s Chinese language.
This is roughly the sole theme of One Day World.
In Zhu Jingying’s essay ” The ‘Beautiful Chinese I Learned’ in Taiwan “, he mentioned how the author taught his eleven-year-old cousin who was studying at the Shanghai International School to read Eileen Chang’s “Dream of Genius”. My cousin saw the picture of “looking up” and said “she looks very cold”. It can be seen how poor language tools we have left for children. Miss Zhu’s rebuttal “she is desolate”, replacing common people’s clichés with elegant clichés, is not much better.
To teach a friend who is studying at Shanghai International School to read Eileen Chang, Mike couldn’t get past it. (Or what about international?) Just like introducing Phil Spector to a Japanese born in 1990, it is impossible not to introduce Eiichi Otaki. They are two points on an extended line. However, Eileen Chang will definitely become more and more difficult to read in the future, because Hong Kong is gone.
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