Swedish Sinologist Yang Milda: Tell Chinese Stories to the West
September 02, 2019 09:30 Source: "China Social Sciences" Journal of Social Sciences, September 2, 2019, Issue 1769 Author: Wang Jianhong Liu Yunjie

Jan Myrdal is a Swedish writer、Critics and political activists。His life of his life,Heart China,So far published more than 200 (articles) evaluation and introduction of Chinese socialist construction,Among them, 5 times from 1962 to 1994 interviewed Liulin Village, southern suburbs of Yan'an,Report from Rural China is particularly famous,So far translated into a variety of text,Best selling countries,Become one of the must -read bibliographies for western society to understand Chinese society。

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Yang Milda was born in 1927 in a senior intellectual family in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden。Father Gunnar Myrdal is one of the main representatives of the Swedish school and new institutional school and development economics,It is also a sociologist and politician。Mother Alva Myrdal is a Swedish female politician,Former Ambassador to Sweden and Minister of Education of Sweden,Prescing to be a higher job in the UNESCO。Because his parents have been paying attention to racial issues for a long time and poverty in Asian countries,The two won the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics and 1982 Nobel Peace Award,This is very rare in the history of the Nobel Prize。

Yang Milda's attention to the socialist revolution,I have first seen the clue during their youth。He has read works on the bet365 Play online games French Revolution and left -wing writers,deeply influenced by Marxism -Leninism。In addition, the European Anti -Fascist Movement and Swedish Workers' Movement in the same period were in full swing,He began to actively participate in the Swedish progress movement。1944,17 -year -old Yang Milda withdrew from school,A reporter from the Swedish Communist Party News、Special correspondent,Then join the Swedish Communist Party。

From 1958,Yang Milida traveled to Afghanistan、Iran、Cambodia、India and other more than 20 countries,Promote anti -colonialism、Anti -Imperialism,Follow the Third World Question、National Liberation Struggle,He condemn the United States to launch the Vietnamese war is hegemonism。1967,He founded the left -wing comments magazine "Cultural Ending" in Sweden,and long -term as a responsible editor,Promote the left -wing thought。1968,The Confestions of a Disloyal EUROPEAN,Undurable describing the difficult childhood years he spent in the United States and Sweden,Reflection of self and exposing the social injustice,It was selected by the New York Times as one of the "Top Ten Outstanding Books" in 1968。

Yang Milda's recent foreign trip was in January 2010,More than 80 years old, he goes deep into the jungle in central India,Live in the guerrilla area of ​​the Communist Party for two weeks,Interview with the leaders of the Indian Maoist。Published "Red Star Over India" in 2012,Elapse his view of the situation in India。Due to his enthusiasm for his point of view、bet365 Play online games The key to the direct Chinese,It is called "Sweden's most rebellious writer"。Swedish writer Iva Luli Johnson even praised "Yang Milda is the best writer in Sweden","Whenever he travels abroad,Sweden will become silent ","He is brave,Is a realist,A Guardian "。

 Published a number of books on China

Yang Milida has read Snow in the early years、Han Suyin and others' writings about China,Great interest in the success of the Chinese Revolution,I hope to experience and observe the status of emerging socialist China。

spring 1962,Yang Milida and the photographer's wife Gun Kessle received a visa visit to China,This is the first time they set foot in China,I visited Inner Mongolia、Yunnan and other places,Yang Milda made a request to enter the rural survey in China,Finally approved to experience life for two months in Liulin Commune on the southern suburbs of Yan'an。

Liulin Village is a well -known "Agricultural Demonstration Village" during the commune movement,Village Branch Li Youhua has been rated as a provincial level、National Agriculture Model。The reason for choosing Liulin Village is mentioned,Yang Milda wrote in the preface of the Report from Rural China,"Liu Lin is a typical northern Shaanxi village,Before the Central Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, the practice of communism,The earliest pilot to carry out collective agricultural cooperation "。It can be said,Liu Lin was a "model" village of the agricultural system reform at that time。

early August,The Yang Milda couple arrived in Yan'an with Xi'an accompanied bet365 live casino games by two translators,received enthusiastic reception。The help of the village secretary Li Youhua and the translation,A successful interview with Liu Lin villagers。within two months,Yang Milida is mainly responsible for interviews,Gan Caseli is responsible for taking photos,They work from 8 am to 6 pm,A total of 50 households were interviewed,Nearly a hundred villagers。So far,Liulin villagers on the elderly villagers,I still remember this visit to Yang Milda this visit,After more than half a century,The first time they saw the photos and text of themselves and the older generation from Yang Milda's book,Men thousands of emotions。mid -September,Yang Milda couple leave Liu Lin to Beijing,It was received by leaders such as Mao Zedong,and were invited to participate in Tiananmen Gate of the National Day。This time the governor of China is 9 months,Yang Milda said "visiting the countryside and the peasant revolution is the most important part of the journey of China"。

The Swedish text of "Report from Rural China" in 1963 was published for the first time in Stockholm。This book describes the rural Chinese countryside,Immediately caused a huge response in Western society,Subsequently translated into English、Method、De、Days and other more than 20 languages。After the publication of the English translation in 1965,major Western media commented on the book,Critics published articles on the Guardian and Chicago Tributics,Praise the book is added。where,Edgar Snow commented in the "New Republic" bet365 live casino games magazine: "From the self -report of more than thirty people,People understand almost everyone's history in the village。No one is an important person in the country、The great figure of the party or the veteran of the Long March。But,When they start to remember their personal life experience,The presentation of national conditions does provide an interesting new perspective。”

The success of the book "Report from Rural China",won a wide range of social reputation for Yang Milda,Make him quickly ranked among the famous Swedish sinologists in Sweden,and was elected chairman of the Ruizhong Friendship Association in 1968。After that,He also visited China many times as the chairman of the association,Among them in 1969、1975、1978、1982、In 1994, I made a special trip to Liulin Village,Published "Return to that Chinese Village"、"EN Fest I Liu Lin", including a number of works reflecting Liulin Village。It is worth mentioning is,June 10-20, 1978,When he came to China,also led the shooting team to shoot a 45 -minute color documentary for Liu Lin。Later,This documentary was broadcast on the National Television of Sweden,Become a precious image of the rural in northern Shaanxi before the reform and opening up today。Yang Milida has continued to pay attention to 20 years for Yan'an Liulin Village,completely recorded the change of rural changes in northern Shaanxi during the community period to the reform and opening up。This series of theory that reflects the changes in the development of Chinese socialist rural Bet365 app download areas,Not only is it unique to the West,It is also very rare in China。

Except Liulin Village,Yang Milda's footprints all over Xinjiang、Gansu、Shaanxi、Sichuan、Chongqing、Zhejiang、Anhui and other provinces and regions,Published "Chinese Journey"、The Silk Road、"China Record: 1975-1978" (China Notebook: 1975-1978 ") and other introductions Chinese books。other,He also gave a lot of speech on China。Due to his outstanding contribution to Sino -Swiss relations,1993,Nankai University awarded its honorary doctorate degree。

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Yang Milida now lives in Walbury, a coastal city in Harland, Sweden。He is 92 years old this year,But still endless plowing,Comments on social platforms often。

We got in contact with him through emails,He is very happy,Receive the enthusiastic letter to inform us,The 50,000 books and files he collected are all preserved in a four -story Yang Milda Library in the center of Walbury,At present, the museum is managed by the Yang Milda Association。His wife Gan Kelseli died in 2007,The photos taken and film taken that year were sent to Stockholm's Far East Cultural Relics Museum for collection,His daughter Eva Milida is an archaeologist,Work in the museum。Yang Milida said,I hope to donate the information I collected to Yan'an Old District through the appropriate channel,so that more people can engage in this study。

(This article is the key project of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education "Agricultural Cooperation Movement in Collective Memory -History bet365 best casino games Investigation of Liulin Village, Yan'an City" (17jz082) phase results)

(Author Unit: Department of History of Yan'an University)

  

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