The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution by Jonathan D. Spence

Author:Jonathan D. Spence [Spence, Jonathan D.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1982-10-28T04:00:00+00:00

Xu’s name had already been dropped from the masthead of his own Crescent Moon journal by more politically minded colleagues. Now, with Wen falling silent, he would have to content himself with the praise of young admirers.62

The Chinese scene depressed Xu Zhimo more deeply the more carefully he examined it. As he wrote to Elmhirst, again in English, in March 1929:All the more am I prone to a painful sense of nostalgia finding, as I cannot help finding, what daily surrounds me here: sordidness instead of nobility, hostility and mutual destructiveness rather than fellowship and cooperation, dead and infectious dogmas, not living principles, run wild, like stalking corpses, to plunge the whole nation into yet greater disaster and suppress the creative fountain of human spirit! Meanwhile whole provinces are dragging on in simply incredible conditions of existence. I myself have had glimpses of the starving North and my blood chills with the mere thought of it. Children that look no longer human actually fight over lichen and mosses that their bony fingers scratch off from the crevices of rocks and stuff into their mouths, in their desperate effort to assuage excruciating hunger and cold! Lord, wherefore such were caused to be born!63

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