【美坛复活群魔乱舞】中国飞弹教父与麦卡锡主义 McCarthyism LYJiang2021-10-19 16:48:45

1955年10月8日：享誉麻省及加州两大理工学院、曾经参与曼克顿计划的火箭专家钱学森, 从久居的美国抵达香港。面对记者围访，钱氏不迎不拒，长问短答。临别时、他只向满口英语、不谙国语的香港记者回赠了這一句：华人总要说点国语吧。接着就携眷乘火车北上。甫入华界边城深圳，钱氏立即受到样板的英雄式欢迎。此后荣宠有加，不在话下。至于钱氏的弃美归华，与其说是因为周恩来的无量功德，毋宁说是因为麦卡锡的无限上纲。

 

有此传闻：艾森豪威尔政府暗以钱氏换回11名在韓战被俘的美国空军飞行员。不管该项传闻属实与否，钱氏确是决意举家返回中国的。况且，這位专研改善airframe来增速、卓有成就的尖端科才，早已因麦卡锡而投闲置散了好几年。一旦北京招手，能不感激知遇？事实上，对于钱氏、北京果然不虚前席。

 

For a fair and balanced book-length account of Qian Xuesen's contribution to China’s missile development, check out the late Iris Shun-ru Chang’s Thread of The Silkworm (1995).

 

Airframe (the structure of an aircraft): In case you enjoy thriller novels popular with the informed public, you might want to check out the late Michael Crichton's Airframe (1996), if you haven't yet.

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Is McCarthyism still haunting America?

 

Around 1950, Republican US senator Joseph R. McCarthy was facing a tough re-election in his home state of Wisconsin. This was also a tough time for Americans who were witnessing the CCP’s takeover of Mainland China while the Soviet Union was catching up as the second nuclear power.

 

Channeling national angst into a self-serving campaign, McCarthy managed to regain his political fortune by blanketing America with Red Scare. Richard Nixon, a Republican young turk, picked up McCarthyism and ran with it, thus advancing his political career spectacularly. Nixon was not alone.

 

McCarthy's witch hunt for Communist sympathizers led to the detention and deportation of US-trained Qian Xuesen (Tsien Hsue-shen), later known as the Father of Chinese Rocketry. Cases of witch-hunt victims kept piling up until McCarthyism peaked four years shy of McCarthy’s death in 1957.

 

For the record, it was Owen Lattimore, himself a witch-hunt victim, who coined McCarthyism in his book titled Ordeal by Slander, which I highly recommend for your reading pleasure, if pleasure is the right word here. (It is also worth mentioning that Lattimore was truly an American expert on pre-1949 Mongolia and Manchuria, as attested by his published works.)

 

Today the far left is using the far right's playbook, re-enacting McCarthyism through Woke and Cancel Culture. Extremists on both sides, though disagreeable to each other, are actually no different from one another when it comes to power grab. Only voters can put every last one of them in his or her place.

 

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Author: Lingyang Jiang 

The specter in my piece is not Sphinx. So there's no riddle.

沙发！真是古今中英通吃！：）你应该成为一个Ambassador！：）

You've just earned yourself a very welcoming sofa. Be right back

谢谢妖妖灵！喜欢十月万圣节主题，我辈大可“不问苍生问鬼神”。

Can I get away without a riddle? Keeping my fingers crossed.

Thank you, 陶陶三, for your support!

真是古今中英通吃！：）你应该成为一个Ambassador！：） -妖妖灵- +10086

陶翁以国风体演绎Windflowers，自成一家，自成一体。“不学陶诗，无以言。”

给两位才女赞得天旋地转，晕！要找我的小倩去。

哈哈，倩女幽魂里那位小倩？小羊你这中文真是太地道了。

哈哈，Jiang真会夸人，“不学诗，无以言”。Windflowers我本是模仿诗经国风写的，再改成歌词。厉害！

写得好,极左极右都害人,美国的左无论如何也到不了极左吧,顶多中偏左一点, 倒是中国一不留神就到极左,

这火箭技术也是回答楼下唐古老师的质疑, 始于德国的弹道导弹,当然是军事用途,

羊羊好！谢谢分享

可惜有太多的人都忙着朝极端扯。

学习了

我是奉诗经为古典诗的圣经的。

香港人称洋鬼子作“鬼佬”，不含贬义。

小可是九十后，学院虽左，同侪仍然兼听异见，尊重右派的生命权论，汲取9/11教训…

卫星战，月球基地战，恐怕不再纯属科幻。

谢谢虫虫！问好之馀，愿见新作。

谢谢 ibelieu ！

Extremists left and right are good at bloviating and bloviating

only. Who solves problems wins today and tomorrow.

谢谢慢兔！太客气了。

I like your post which shows us 18 translations of a German poem

None of them are perfect, but I found my kernel. Thanks!

Your post nails it by virtue of the title: You reap what you sow

Putin has no silver bullet for COVID fatigue.

You impressed me with your “Autumn “ poem …

Your post about Rome is a feast for the eyes.

Alexander Pope would be proud of your translation.

哈哈，谢谢！

Yes-:))

Trust and Mistrust-:)),

羊羊好! 我最近懒得很，没有新作啊。试试啊 ：）

Thank you! You're so sweet!

That's great. Thanks, Evergreen Pine!

Also thanks for your support!

You must have been through a lot.

I'm too young to have any experience of McCarthyism.

Hey, I am serious. You've done Alexander Poe an honor.

At the end of the day, it all comes down to this:

Trust but verify, as the late Ronald Reagan put it so well.

谢谢虫虫！文缘到时，自有文章。

I actually think I didn't praise you enough.

怡然居乡里，农田两三亩 呼吸岭上风，出入林间路 -- Pope's world is so

beautifully sincized.

粗衣四体勤，薄田五谷丰 蔽暑中庭树，御寒炉火红 --- Hand-to-mouth though,

Pope harvested the rewards of self-sufficiency.

平日多闲暇，安然数年华 体健心意惬，溪静照晚霞 --- Pope couldn't

ask for more than peace of mind.

长夜睡无忧，自在书中求 鸣鸟堂前憩，冥思处处幽 --- Pope enjoyed reading

a book of life he's writing.

生时无人识，死日无人知 盍然随风去，无语石下息 --- Pope was blessed

enough to fear no death while living a full life.

My post leaves something to be desired.

The Book of Songs is full of rhyme and reason.

I would like to be an ambassador to the Tang Empire.

I would like to rhyme with diplomacy in Changan.

窃以为吾国如一榄核，左右两头尖小，中间阔大。自1776年以来，始终还是中间阔大。

小羊是洋小子，当然是鬼仔。太太是洋妞，不亦鬼妹乎？

是故昵称內子曰小倩。她不懂，却喜欢。

关于某囯，窃以为上下差距，比左右倾向更值注意。

Even Russians are sick and tired of the shutdown policy.

But Putin is a control freak.

People just want to be out and about. They miss drinking

parties. BTW, they truly need some fresh air.

What comes around, goes around,

I am a self-appointed ambassador to the Tang dreamland.

Thanks, johniewalker!

You're most welcome to share your wisdom & life experience.

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Thanks, 青松站, for your insight! I would only say this:

Thanks so much, beautifulwind & wenxuecity! BTW, 中国...not 爱国...

麦卡锡只是一个小借口。当时热血建国回去的很多，结果十有八九下场凄惨。钱是少数几个不得不用的样子货。技术人员的出身能有几个贫下中农

感谢大号蚂蚁，条分缕析，一针见血道出美中的根本差异。這边数人头，哪边斩人头。还是风景這边独好。请常来赐教。

谢谢八落点赞鼓励！

The Chinese diaspora might just pin their hope on

a false prophet who promised them a better home country.

Yes, I mean the ghostly beauty in the Cantonese movie classic.

One broken dream is one broken generation.

The Middle Kingdom is busy managing its troubled economy.

Besides, the Yankees virtually control all the choke points

on China's sea trade routes.

Imagine what blockades and sanctions would do to

export-dependent China.