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6 Oct 2010
by Admin
Two Chinese Men
Hollywood
traditionally loves to portray Chinese
men as a bunch of mean, vengeful and
untrustworthy demons, which is of course
very biased. China does produce mean,
vengeful and untrustworthy men, just like
any other nations, but China also
nurtures men with noble spirit and a
heart of gold.
There
are two men born in China and studied in
both China and the United States. After
receiving their PhD respectively, one
becomes the world's top scientist and
surgeon through decades of strenuous and
honest work, another remains jobless due
to his less sufficient training and even
lesser endeavour in the profession.
But
different academic trainings and working
attitudes are just parts of the causes
that set the two men world apart. There
is more - the humanitarian conscience.
The
following is one instance to illustrate
our point:
About
ten years ago in September 2000, Fang,
the watchdog of Zachary Burton, a
professor at Michigan State University,
began to collect evidences against Dr.
Xia Jiantong, a 24-year old Chinese who
was said to be the youngest professor
that Harvard ever appointed. The offence
Xia committed related to his description
of his academic credentials that Fang
believed to be over exaggerated to some
degree. Fang determined to bring Xia down
for that reason so sent the accusation
along with the relevant materials to the
assistant dean for Harvard Graduate
School of Design. When in November he
mentioned this incident on his website,
Dr. Xiao advised him to take second
thought before proceeding further. And
following is the record of their online
exchanges at the time which can still be
found on Fang's personal website:
Prof. Confused
(Dr. Xiao):
November 2000
Xia is a real talent;
please give him an opportunity to
learn a lesson without damaging his
career. What he has achieved in such
a tender age is amazing, he must have
worked extremely hard and we as
Chinese should feel proud of him.
None of us is saint
and we all have our faults, let along
a young man like him - even some
senior academics would over boast
their achievements on occasions. Take
ourselves. When we were at his age,
how many silly things we did? To be
frank, I'm not as smart as Xia, and
when I was 24, I was just on my
second year studying for my Master's
degree; by then I had achieved
nothing yet but I was even more
arrogant and ambitious than Xia.
Please, let's give him
some support and wish him to achieve
more in his career. I bow to all of
you here, please stop chasing after
him. Neither cheap praise nor harsh
condemnation would really help a
talented young man to learn and to
grow. I disagree with your idea of
making a big splash on this matter by
informing the Harvard authority. We
can help him to correct his mistakes
privately, otherwise it may
eventually hurt all Chinese students
and academics here.
昏教授（肖传国）：
夏建统还是个才子,
请同胞们高抬贵手.
这个年龄, 能有此成就, 也算难得,
也算努力了,
也算给中国学人挣脸了.
人非圣贤, 孰能无过?何况少年才子多轻狂,
得意忘形之处也还是可以理解,
可以原谅的.
即使昏庸无能如本教授者,
德高望重如海宁者,
中奸巨滑如巴山者,
都还经常牛皮大发,
诸位若想想自己24岁时的德性,
可能比夏强不到哪里去吧?
坦白从宽:
我可能没夏这么聪明; 我24岁时才刚读硕士第二年;
我24岁时无夏如此成就; 我24岁时可能比夏还轻狂幼稚.
所以, 同为中国人,
我们主要还是应该为他的才能和成就高兴,希望他成大器.
请大家莫再穷追猛打,
我给大家鞠躬了. 人才难得,
捧杀不好, 骂杀也可惜.
我更反对把事闹到哈佛当局去,
内外还是应该有别,
否则这石头最终会砸在所有中国学人脚上.
Fang:
I sent out the
documents because the assistant dean
of Harvard's School of Design asked
me to do so.
是哈佛建筑学院的院长助理向我索取有关夏的报道和读者评论，我才给寄去的.
Prof. Confused
(Dr. Xiao):
Please forgive me for
being blunt. I just don't see why it
is nessacery; if I were you, I would
definitely do things differently. To
start with, do you really have to
follow the order of an assistant dean
from Harvard? Is it wise for Chinese
in America to ruin another Chinese's
career? Will it do any good to
Chinese students and academics
studying and living in the United
States? Look at those American
movies, whenever a Chinese appears,
he is forever depicted in a negative
light. Have you ever seen a positive
Chinese character in a Hollywood
film?
I'm not a fan of Jews,
but I do admire their spirit of unity
which has a lot for us to learn,
since we are more like a plate of
sands. Your fraud busting activity is
undoubtedly quite beneficial to a
healthy development of China's
science, but when it has a potential
to spoil the collective image of
Chinese people, we should try to
address the issue within Chinese
community. All things in the world
are interconnected, and a positive
action could result a very negative
consequence.
恕我直言:
不妥. 我要是你, 决不这么作!
你有必要听命于哈佛院长助理吗?
再说,
由我们中国人把这个中国人彻底搞臭,
彻底毁灭, 对他(24岁),
对其他在美中国学人,
对其他在美中国人真有天大的好处吗?
看看美国的电视电影,
凡有中国人脚色的,
哪一个是正面的?
我极不喜欢犹大人,
但他们的紧密抱团的确值得我们这一盘散沙学习.
你的打假工作无疑对中国目前及将来学术科技的健康发展具极重要的正面影响.
但若可能涉及中国人的整体形象时,
要有轻重, 要内外有别,
不能只图一时痛快.
世界上任何事没有绝对的对错,一件好事,
处理不当完全可能带来很糟的付作用.
Fang:
Phew! Is the
collective image of Chinese people
maintained by Xia? I was asked to
send out the materials, should I just
ignore the request? If I did so, they
might think I have something to hide,
would this spoil my personal image as
a Chinese? And furhter spoil the
collective image of all Chinese? Tell
you, you're just fxxk stupid, pray
stop calling yourself professor.
嘿嘿，'中国人的整体形象’靠夏建统来维护？夏建统成了中国人的代表？人家来找我了解情况，我却不予理睬，显得心理有鬼，是不是也损害了我这个中国人的形象？推而广之，是不是也损害了中国人的整体形象？如此弱智，就别自称什么'教授’了。”
Do you see how
psychotically unreasonable and fxxk rude
of Zachary Burton's watchdog is?! How can
anybody ever believe a man like Fang who
concerns no one else's interest but his
own would spend years to bust fraud for
free just for helping "China's
science move forward"?
Yet
Zachary Burton would present this mean,
vengeful and untrustworthy guy as a
watchdog to keep men of honour and noble
honest. This notion in itself deserves to
be fraud busted. If it is not due to
Burton's naivety that makes him so easily
to be fooled by his student, then we
shall have a good reason to suspect he
may cherish some deliberate intentions.
But
whatever Zachary Burton's true intention
for China and especially China's science
is, he can feel quite satisfied by now.
The good man devoted to serving the
humanity and serving Chinese people in
particular has been locked up and labeled as fraud by a
Fang associated media, while the man of
fraud in almost all aspects being hailed
as the warrior of fraud busting.
What
a fxxk stupid moment in history it is!
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