Chapter 287 Unforgettable Memorial
Lin Zixuan spent most of his time in London attending various literary gatherings and communicating with London's cultural elites.
These people hope to learn about the real oriental culture through Lin Zixuan, rather than hearsay.
Lin Zixuan made as objective statements as possible about China's culture and current situation, correcting Westerners' misunderstandings about Easterners. If other topics are involved, he will keep listening and occasionally express his opinions.
No one knows omnisciently and omnipotently, it is better not to make any comments in areas that you are not familiar with.
Through previous correspondence, he knew that these people were bolder, especially members of the Bloomsbury group, often challenging the existing social order and state machinery.
On February 10, 1910, Virginia Woolf pretended to be Prince Mendax of Abyssinia, and her younger brother Adrian was pretending to be her translator and went to Weimus to visit the British Navy's USS Fearless warship, and was warmly received.
The entire scam was designed seamlessly, completely keeping the fleet commander in the dark.
They criticize the government and express their thoughts through such bold actions and extraordinary remarks.
But Woolf is a mentally ill patient. When he doesn't have an attack, he is a quick-witted, bold and independent woman. Once the mental illness occurs, he will have a bad idea.
Perhaps it was because of the disease that she was tortured by many famous stream of consciousness novels.
Around 1925 was the glorious period of her creation.
In May, she published the novel "Madame Dalloway", which was widely praised by the British literary critics. This novel was later rated by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English novels from 2019 to 2005.
What Lin Zixuan saw was a woman with funny words and cheerful personality.
Her thinking is very leaps and she says whatever she thinks, and sometimes she can't keep up with the rhythm of her conversation.
This is always slow to chat with oriental people, and the habit of keeping three points when talking to the mouth is completely different. Chinese people emphasize that too much words will lead to mistakes, so they often think about it in their hearts when speaking.
Woolf felt that Lin Zixuan was too silent, which was not very consistent with the image of the letter that put forward many wonderful insights.
But she did not doubt Lin Zixuan's writing talent, after all, she had works as proof. She only thought this was the implicitness of the Oriental people.
Lin Zixuan came to the UK for two purposes. One was to show his presence in the British literary circle, and the other was to make his own voice, or to make a voice from China.
When he introduced China to these British cultural elites, he would mention the May 30th Massacre that just happened in China.
This incident has had a great impact worldwide.
He used his personal experience to explain the truth. On May 30, he was at the scene of the incident.
During negotiations between the Beiyang government and the missions of various countries, foreign missions have always argued that the police were opened for self-defense, while the Chinese people were thugs and attacked the police.
This matter has not yet been achieved.
In the UK, the British government has an extremely tough attitude, and British Foreign Secretary Chamberlain issued an important statement on the situation in China in the Lower House of Parliament.
"Like other countries concerned, we will protect the lives and property of British subjects in China, and we will hold the Chinese government responsible for all the wanton harm and losses suffered by British subjects or property. There is no doubt that we cannot be weak or hesitate."
The Japanese ambassador believed that "we must support the Shanghai Consular Corps and the Ministry of Industry, and we must also avoid any actions that may make the Chinese think they can force countries to make concessions with violence."
The tough attitudes of the United Kingdom, the United States and Japan have led to no progress in the investigation and negotiations on the May 30th Massacre. Both sides are just shirking blame and provoking each other.
Among them, Britain and Japan have the most firm positions, while the United States has two sides and is centrally coordinated.
The tone of US policy is to unintentionally take advantage of the chaos that is unfavorable to Britain and Japan.
Basically, they chose to maintain internal unity of the great powers. They especially agreed that the three strong men of the United States, Britain and Japan, which have important interests in China, took on diplomatic responsibilities and gave clear leadership to the mission when dealing with relations with China.
"We can work with the British and Japanese openly, but don't be foolish and gang up with them, and we can share the hatred of the Chinese people for them."
British cultural elites are also divided into different factions, some tend to be government-oriented, while others tend to sympathize with China.
Even within the Bloomsbury group there are differences, but they believe that individuals have freedom of speech.
What Lin Zixuan needs is an opportunity to make a sound. He came to the UK as a private person, but he never thought about protesting in the UK government departments. Or giving speeches to the two houses of the UK, which is unrealistic.
He just needs to make a sound in public.
Members of the Bloomsbury group were called the Cambridge Py, so Lin Zixuan got an opportunity to speak at the University of Cambridge.
On the afternoon of September 21, 1925, Lin Zixuan, a lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge University.
In addition to Cambridge students, there were also a small number of international students from China, and even curious professors from Cambridge University.
The title of his speech was called "The Unforgettable Memorial". For this speech, he made sufficient preparations and specially practiced the pronunciation in English. This is to be able to express his meaning clearly.
Lin Zixuan told the audience about the atrocities that occurred in Shanghai four months ago.
"I was at the scene at that time, with my students around me. They might be excited and indignant, but they were definitely not thugs, but unarmed civilians. I heard the continuous sounds, and the crowd panicked and fled, but the sound was still endless."
"After the tragedy, the students and civilians who were killed were slandered by the public concession authorities as rioters and excused their brutal crimes. This is a confusion of black and white and confusion of right and wrong."
"Power can do whatever he wants, control public opinion, and be willing to ****. What a dark world is this."
"But the weak also have the right to resist. In order to protest the atrocities of the concession authorities, Shanghai launched a city-wide general strike, workers' strike, merchants' strike, and students' strike. The whole city is like a dead city."
"There were subsequently large-scale protests across China, which was a roar from a nation."
"China has been silent for too long and suppressed for too long. It takes an outbreak to awaken the revival of the entire country."
"When a declining nation knows how to be bullied without resistance, and when they know how to erupt in silence, then the revival of this country is not far from."
"We are not afraid of sacrifice. Real warriors dare to face the bleak life and face the blood. Their sacrifice will surely be remembered and become a bright red mark on the road to rejuvenation of this country."
"Although the rejuvenation of the nation and the rejuvenation of the country have a long way to go, we will move forward even more." (To be continued.) Mobile users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net
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