PC World 2001 July/PCWorld_2001-07_cd.bin/EPA/EngAct/EngAct2/Avi/Chang/Chang.Msc

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    Description = 'PART 1'
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  object TNSBookmark
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    Time = 0.329433106575964
    Description = 'What else can one say except " Wild Swans by Jung Chang".'
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    Description = 'Jung, you must be at least amazed.'
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    Description = 'Yes, I am.'
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    Id = '5'
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    Description = 'I am absolutely amazed.'
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    Id = '6'
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    Description = 'Yes.'
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  object TNSBookmark
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    Description =
      'I am going to ask you, before we go into the details of the book' +
      ','
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  object TNSBookmark
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      'I am going to ask you the question that everybody else has asked' +
      ' you,'
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  object TNSBookmark
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    Description = 'because I'#39'd like to hear your answer for myself.'
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    Description = 'Why do you think the book has been so successful?'
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    Description = 'Well, I really don'#39't know.'
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  object TNSBookmark
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    Description = 'But I think there probably will be a number of reasons.'
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    Description = 'Perhaps one reason is that the book is a human story.'
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    Description = 'It'#39's a story of my grandmother, my mother and myself.'
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    Description = 'It'#39's about the three women in the 20th century China.'
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    Description =
      'And I think a lot of people all over the world can identify with' +
      ' us, with our experience.'
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    Description = 'I was there at the N.C.R. Prize in 1992 the night the book won.'
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    Description = 'And John Fowles, who was the judge speaking for your book said'
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    Description = 'that the book'#39's great success was its simplicity of writing.'
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    Description = 'Do you agree with that?'
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  object TNSBookmark
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    Description = 'I did write simply, I think.'
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    Description =
      'And ... well the thing is, I feel that the writing shouldn'#39't be ' +
      'a barrier between the readership and the message'
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  object TNSBookmark
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    Description = 'and the stories that I want to get across.'
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    Description = 'So I think that less is more, and the simpler, the better.'
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    Description = 'Let us now begin at the very beginning,'
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      'and I will quote to you your own, now famous, first sentence whi' +
      'ch is:'
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      '"At the age of fifteen, my grandmother became the concubine of a' +
      ' Warlord General. "'
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    Description = 'Not many family memoirs begin like that.'
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    Description = 'So let us start with your grandmother.'
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    Description = 'What was she like?'
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    Description = 'Oh, my grandmother was a lovely woman.'
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    Description = 'When she was two years old,'
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    Description = 'her feet were bound, crushed and bound.'
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    Description = 'Her feet were literally four inches long when she was adult.'
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    Description = 'Crushed ...'
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    Description = 'Crushed'
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    Description = 'How was this done?'
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    Description = 'She was, you know, she was the concubine ... no.'
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    Description = 'She was born in 1909.'
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    Description = 'And in her days, women had to have bound feet.'
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    Description = 'Basically, only the big toe was allowed to grow.'
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    Description = 'The other four toes and the arch were crushed under a big stone.'
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      'And the binding was just to stop the broken bones from recoverin' +
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      'So from the age of two, my grandmother lived in excruciating pai' +
      'n.'
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      'she was given by her father to a Warlord General to be his concu' +
      'bine.'
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      'She was married to him for six days and then he left for six yea' +
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    Description = 'because he had many concubines dotted around China'
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    Description = 'and he only visited them when he was next in town.'
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      'And the rest of the time my grandmother lived as a virtual priso' +
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    Description = 'and the servants were under orders to spy on her.'
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    Description = 'But eventually, when the Warlord General was dying'
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    Description = 'and when my grandmother realized that after his death,'
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    Description = 'because my mother, as a blood descendant,'
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    Description = 'had to be raised by the proper wife, not by a concubine.'
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    Description = 'So my grandmother escaped with my mother.'
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    Description = 'the tiny feet which was not, were not supposed to walk.'
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      'The purpose of binding the feet is to make women appeal erotical' +
      'ly, is it?'
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    Description = 'It'#39's supposed to be, yes.'
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    Description = 'And of course, it'#39's then gone into the myth'
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    Description = 'and families with girls would automatically bind their feet,'
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      'because they thought otherwise the girls wouldn'#39't be able to hav' +
      'e a good marriage.'
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    Description = 'PART 2'
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    Description = 'What was your grandmother'#39's character like?'
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    Description = 'She was very strong and I think she had a very hard life.'
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    Description = 'After she escaped from the Warlord'#39's machine,'
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    Description = 'she fell in love with an elderly Manchu doctor, doctor Sha.'
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      'Doctor Sha'#39's entire family were against his marriage to my grand' +
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    Description = 'He was a widower.'
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    Description = 'And the family thought that my grandmother had been a concubine,'
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    Description = 'she would bring shame to their family.'
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      'Doctor Sha'#39's eldest son was so upset that he shot himself in pro' +
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    Description = 'But the marriage went ahead'
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    Description = 'and my grandmother had a very happy life with doctor Sha.'
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      'Although, of course, they had to live for example under Japanese' +
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    Description = 'and there were a lot of Japanese atrocities around them.'
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    Description = 'And there was then the civil war between Chan-Khai-Shek and Mao.'
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    Description = 'And their lives were devastated and then, under the communists,'
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    Description = 'my grandmother had to witness my mother'#39's detention.'
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      'And later in the cultural revolution my mother'#39's, you know, tort' +
      'ure'
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    Description = 'and my mother sent to a labour camp ...'
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    Description =
      'My mother suffered over a hundred of those violent denunciation ' +
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    Description =
      'And the ordeal was too much, I mean, too devastating to my grand' +
      'mother.'
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      'So she died very sadly, tragically, at the age of sixty in the c' +
      'ulture revolution.'
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    Description = 'When you think of it now, and this is a book full of incident,'
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      'when you think of it now, do you think that there was one incide' +
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    Description = 'no matter how small,'
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  object TNSBookmark
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    Description = 'which became the defining incident of her life?'
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    Description = 'I think my mother'#39's denunciation in the cultural revolution'
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      'became the point that she felt that she just couldn'#39't cope anymo' +
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    Description = 'She had had a very difficult life,'
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    Description = 'but my mother was her entire life.'
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    Description =
      'And at this point, when my mother was, my mother, you know, was ' +
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    Description = 'When she came back, her knees were full of fragments of glass.'
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      'And my grandmother had to make kneepads to put on my mother'#39's kn' +
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    Description = 'First to use a tweezer to get, to take out all the fragments'
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    Description = 'and then put the kneepads on her knees,'
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    Description = 'so on the next occasion, my mother could have kneepads.'
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    Description = 'And my grandmother also made this waistband,'
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    Description = 'padded waistband around my mother'#39's waist.'
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    Description =
      'Because at those violent denunciation meetings people, you know,' +
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    Description = 'would punch your weakest, your most vulnerable point.'
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    Description =
      'So my grandmother, you see, my grandmother just had ... was suff' +
      'ering so much with my mother.'
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    Description = 'What was the denunciation for?'
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    Description = 'Well, at the beginning of the culture revolution,'
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      'my father became one of the few who stood up against this violen' +
      'ce and atrocities'
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    Description = 'and protested to Mao against the culture revolution.'
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    Description =
      'So as a result, my father was denounced and tortured and driven ' +
      'insane in prison.'
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    Description = 'As a traitor?'
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    Description = 'As, as ... because he spoke up.'
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      'My mother that was under tremendous pressure to denounce my fath' +
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    Description = 'But my mother refused.'
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    Description = 'So she suffered, because she stood by my father.'
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    Description = 'PART 3'
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    Description = 'So here we are.'
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  object TNSBookmark
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    Description = 'Your grandmother, great hardship, your mother, great hardship.'
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    Description = 'And you?'
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    Description = 'Well, by comparison, I didn'#39't suffer much at all.'
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    Description = 'And compared not just to my mother and grandmother,'
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    Description = 'but to most, the majority of Chinese.'
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    Description =
      'Because I was born into a very privileged background of the comm' +
      'unist elite.'
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    Description =
      'In fact, I grew up so much taking hierarchy and privilege for gr' +
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    Description = #39'cause we had our own wet nurses, my siblings and I,'
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    Description =
      'we lived in an armed compound with cooks and drivers, gardeners ' +
      'and so on.'
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      'So I just took all this for granted that when I first came to En' +
      'gland,'
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    Description = 'I thought England was wonderfully classless.'
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    Description = 'And of course, my views have been modified over the years.'
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    Description = 'And it was ...'
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    Description = 'So it was a very protected childhood.'
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    Description =
      'And also in those days, we were, we led a very isolated life, yo' +
      'u know,'
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      'China was totally cut off from the outside world when we were ch' +
      'ildren.'
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    Description =
      'I ... you know, I never met a foreigner until I was twenty-three' +
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    Description =
      'And when we were children, if the ... when the boys played guerr' +
      'illa warfare,'
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  object TNSBookmark
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    Description = 'which was like the cowboys and the Indians,'
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      'and the bad guys would always have rose thorns screwed onto thei' +
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    Description = 'to show they were foreigners.'
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    Description = 'And the bad guys would say '#39'Hello'#39' all the time,'
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    Description =
      'because in propaganda films, evil foreigners were always drinkin' +
      'g Coca-Cola and saying '#39'Hello'#39'.'
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    Description = 'So we all thought '#39'Hello'#39' was a swear word.'
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    Description = 'Nothing changes.'
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    Description =
      'Finally then, do you think that '#39' Wild Swans'#39' is in fact an atla' +
      's,'
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      'I do think our lives reflect the history of twentieth-century Ch' +
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    Description = 'Of course every family story is unique,'
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      'but it does reflect the lives of millions and millions of Chines' +
      'e.'
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  object TNSBookmark
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    Description = 'I have many letters from Chinese readers.'
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  object TNSBookmark
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    Description =
      'I mean every one of them tells me how my family story reminds th' +
      'em of their family stories.'
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