d**e
发帖数: 2420 | 1 http://zqb.cyol.com/html/2013-01/31/nw.D110000zgqnb_20130131_3-
方舟子打假“3D打印先驱”
近日，素有“打假斗士”之称的方舟子再次发力，将打假“利剑”指向被外界捧为“
3D打印先驱”的女企业家傅苹。引发此事的导火索则是《福布斯》中文网刊登的一篇有
关傅苹的报道。
在此之前，国内知道傅苹其人其事的人并不多。不过，这位在美国创业的华裔女企
业家却“大有来头”。《福布斯》中文网描述这位高科技企业家人生之路的文章介绍说
，傅苹曾经供职于美国国家超级计算机应用中心（NCSA），工作涉及早期的云计算模型
、电脑动画和3D打印技术；她曾经管理的团队成员包括网景公司创始人马克·安德森，
后者是互联网上第一个获普遍使用的网页浏览器的发明人；她还曾是美国总统奥巴马的
座上宾，在美国“创新和创业国家顾问委员会”中任职。
傅苹的网络名声，很大程度上与3D打印技术的方兴未艾相关。所谓3D打印技术，实
际上是一系列快速原型成型技术的统称，其基本原理都是叠层制造。基于这种技术的3D
打印机在内部装有液体或粉末等“打印材料”，通过电脑控制把“打印材料”一层层叠
加起来，最终把计算机上的三维蓝图变成实物。
傅苹创办的科技企业杰魔公司（Geomagic）正是研发3D相关软件，从事个性化的鞋
子、假肢和航天飞船的维修部件的设计和定制。就在这个月，傅苹把公司出售给了3D
Systems（一家3D打印技术公司），并出任新公司的首席战略官。有网友将“3D打印机
创始人”的“桂冠”安放在她头上，方舟子认为这是“张冠李戴”，因为杰魔公司只是
做3D数据采集、分析和建模的，并非做3D打印。至于媒体把傅苹称为是“奥巴马团队的
人”，方舟子表示，“她只是该委员会的20多个委员之一”。
方舟子的质疑，还集中在傅苹的履历的诸多疑点。方舟子在博文中写道，傅苹在报
道中称，上世纪80年代，她发表了一篇讨论中国农村溺杀女婴现象的毕业论文，因此锒
铛入狱，《人民日报》对此还做了报道。但方舟子在检索同期的报纸时，并未发现相关
报道。此外，方舟子还发现，傅苹对国外媒体和国内媒体在自身履历描述上往往会出现
“内外有别”的情况。方舟子认为，傅苹在向国外媒体叙述自身的“文革”经历太过“
传奇”，并斥责其在说谎。
推荐理由：
截至目前，傅苹对于方舟子的质疑没有做出回应。当今社会，一个人在某一领域获
得成功，往往会迅速被传播、放大，捧为“励志榜样”。在这种光环照耀下，成功者也
往往会主动或被动地“包装”自己，试图呈现给公众一个更“完美”的形象，于是，美
化履历，甚至编造“苦难”都应运而生。在IT业界，已有不少前车之鉴，如唐骏的“学
历造假门”、李开复的“副教授”头衔风波等。 （杨程） | T*******a
发帖数: 23033 | | d**e
发帖数: 2420 | | b****l
发帖数: 23606 | 4 这个复评就是个sb，分特
【在 d**e 的大作中提到】
: Amazon上面的comment还在涨，造假太过，把老中给惹了。
: http://www.amazon.com/Bend-Not-Break-Worlds-ebook/product-revie
| d**e
发帖数: 2420 | | d**e
发帖数: 2420 | | k*****r
发帖数: 474 | 7 不会有动静，因为没必要
【在 d**e 的大作中提到】
: 美媒没动静
| b*w
发帖数: 14917 | 8 呼唤北美第一中文媒体《大纪元日报》报道此事。。。
【在 d**e 的大作中提到】
: 美媒没动静
| x******a
发帖数: 6336 | 9 已经把书搞成bestseller了。
书价也在节节攀升
在想是不是要屯一本呢？ | d**e
发帖数: 2420 | 10 轮子报此前跟风吹过傅，骗子一家亲，现在让他们揭露骗子，不是要了亲命吗。
http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/13/1/28/n3787165.htm%E5%A5%87%E5%A
【在 b*w 的大作中提到】
: 呼唤北美第一中文媒体《大纪元日报》报道此事。。。
| | | x******a
发帖数: 6336 | 11 以后政治避难更困难了。
【在 b*w 的大作中提到】
: 呼唤北美第一中文媒体《大纪元日报》报道此事。。。
| b*w
发帖数: 14917 | 12 有闲钱屯一本吧。。。这个傅大嘴估计在偷偷地收购市面上的书。。。
【在 x******a 的大作中提到】
: 已经把书搞成bestseller了。
: 书价也在节节攀升
: 在想是不是要屯一本呢？
| g*******g
发帖数: 9753 | 13 靠，大妓院的全体工作人员都与浮萍同样手段拿的驴卡，他们能揭露自己吗？
【在 b*w 的大作中提到】
: 呼唤北美第一中文媒体《大纪元日报》报道此事。。。
| d**e
发帖数: 2420 | 14 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/04/ping-fu-book-chines
Chinese cast doubt over executive's rags to riches tale
Tania Branigan in Beijing and Ed Pilkington in New York
guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 February 2013 18.47 EST
Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented
childhood during China's cultural revolution, detention and forced exile
after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of
a major US technology firm.
"It sounds too unbelievable for fiction, but this is the true story of a
life in two worlds," enthuses the website for Ping Fu's autobiography, Bend
Not Break. In one interview to promote the book, the entrepreneur boasted
that Michelle Obama had invited her back to the White House for a nightcap
after the 2010 State of the Union address.
But after Chinese readers flagged up a series of inconsistencies and
improbabilities in interviews she has given, Fu has been forced to defend
her book from accusations that some of it is not true.
Fu, the president, chief executive and cofounder of the 3D software company
Geomagic, has said she is "shocked, heartbroken and deeply saddened" by what
she considers a smear campaign that "reveals the dark side of human cruelty
" and "makes me relive the emotional abuse of my childhood".
Many of the questions centre on the 54-year-old's horrifying account of
being wrenched from her parents when the cultural revolution started in 1966
, and sent to a re-education camp where she was gang-raped at the age of 10.
An estimated 36 million people were persecuted during the turmoil and
numerous families torn apart. But sceptics, including Fang Zhouzi, an
influential blogger who scrutinises Chinese academia, say much of Fu's story
does not ring true.
Fu has now acknowledged that her account of a brutal execution by Red Guards
in which they killed a teacher by using four horses to tear her apart was
an "emotional memory" and probably wrong. Pressed by critics, Fu wrote in
the Huffington Post: "To this day, in my mind, I think I saw it. That is my
emotional memory of it. After reading Fang's post, I think in this
particular case that his analysis is more rational and accurate than my
memory." She said she had been in a state of trauma after separation from
her parents.
Some of her clarifications have also raised more questions than they answer.
She wrote: "I also did not say I was a factory worker. I said Mao wanted us
to study and learn from farmers, soldiers and workers." Yet a section of
her book is entitled Factory Worker: 1968 to 1976. It begins "When I was 10
… I received my first factory assignment," and describes her work in
several plants.
One of the biggest question marks is over the circumstances surrounding her
departure from China. The opening line of the book reads: "When I was 25
years old, the Chinese government quietly deported me", prompting sceptics
to point out that usually only prominent dissidents go into exile by
arrangement.
According to Fu's book, she was forced to leave because of her university
thesis on female infanticide prompted by the one-child policy. A Shanghai
newspaper learned of her groundbreaking research and "called for an end to
the madness" in an editorial comment subsequently republished by The People'
s Daily – in what would have been an astonishing move for the staid
official Communist party newspaper. That sparked an international outcry and
her detention, she wrote.
After Fang said he found no trace of the commentary, Fu responded: "I
remember reading an editorial in a newspaper in 1982 that called for gender
equality. It was not a news article and not written by me, and I didn't know
it had anything to do with my research. When writing the book, I did not
name the paper, since I wasn't certain. However, I think that is where I
read the editorial because it was the most popular and official newspaper."
She wrote that her parents arranged for her to study in the US after her
release, but argued that she was forced into exile because police told her
to leave China.
The personification of the American dream, Fu worked her way through college
in the US as a babysitter, cleaner and waitress. She now sits on the US
National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship; last month 3D
Systems announced a deal to acquire her firm, Geomagic.
Neither Penguin – which has published the book via its US imprint – nor
Ping Fu were available for comment. | c******a
发帖数: 4400 | 15 其实，美国人就算知道了她造假，他们的反映会是“看来中国人没有值得信任的”，而
不是其他 | k*******r
发帖数: 16963 | 16 无所谓，脑残美国人继续生活在幻想中最好。
【在 c******a 的大作中提到】
: 其实，美国人就算知道了她造假，他们的反映会是“看来中国人没有值得信任的”，而
: 不是其他
| k******a
发帖数: 2436 | 17 美国人也不是铁板一块，Chinese Americans always think "they" are against us.
In reality, the bubble bursts earlier the damage can still be under control.
【在 c******a 的大作中提到】
: 其实，美国人就算知道了她造假，他们的反映会是“看来中国人没有值得信任的”，而
: 不是其他
| b*****n
发帖数: 17570 | | c*****i
发帖数: 11737 | 19 其实这事反映了美国人被洗脑是多么的严重．估计大家在生活中也都遇到过，和美国人
熟了之后他们经常会问一些有关中国匪夷所思的问题，他们有的是真信，以一种安慰你
的表情出现，有些是将信将疑，找你求证的．不论那种，都说明了美国媒体洗脑能力的
强大．．
【在 d**e 的大作中提到】
: 南华早报英文网专题《骗子猎手方舟子揭发傅苹向美国人民贩卖虚构悲剧》
: http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1139194/liar-hunter-f
| k*****r
发帖数: 474 | 20 对你的怜悯会给他们带来一种高尚感，一种悲天悯人的优越感
【在 c*****i 的大作中提到】
: 其实这事反映了美国人被洗脑是多么的严重．估计大家在生活中也都遇到过，和美国人
: 熟了之后他们经常会问一些有关中国匪夷所思的问题，他们有的是真信，以一种安慰你
: 的表情出现，有些是将信将疑，找你求证的．不论那种，都说明了美国媒体洗脑能力的
: 强大．．
| | | t*****a
发帖数: 1002 | 21 我们看朝鲜和非洲不也是一样的，其实人家那也没那么可怕
民不患贫而患不均，反过来也是一样的，大家都不用过得多富但要有自己惨的人，媒体
只是兜售给你你心理需要的东西而已
【在 c*****i 的大作中提到】
: 其实这事反映了美国人被洗脑是多么的严重．估计大家在生活中也都遇到过，和美国人
: 熟了之后他们经常会问一些有关中国匪夷所思的问题，他们有的是真信，以一种安慰你
: 的表情出现，有些是将信将疑，找你求证的．不论那种，都说明了美国媒体洗脑能力的
: 强大．．
| c*****i
发帖数: 11737 | 22 是的，这种想表达怜悯的在反复确认你回答是＇ＮＯ＇后都会流露出失望的表情
【在 k*****r 的大作中提到】
: 对你的怜悯会给他们带来一种高尚感，一种悲天悯人的优越感
| A*****a
发帖数: 52743 | 23 也可能会更怜悯，觉得你即使到美国了，还不敢说出自己真实感受，怕被暗杀
【在 c*****i 的大作中提到】
: 是的，这种想表达怜悯的在反复确认你回答是＇ＮＯ＇后都会流露出失望的表情
| c*****i
发帖数: 11737 | 24 是啊，朝鲜是被普氏媒体妖魔化的典型．现在这个时代，最不能相信的就是记者，尤其
报道中国的美国记者和中国普氏记者，几乎都是只报他想让你听得那部分．
【在 t*****a 的大作中提到】
: 我们看朝鲜和非洲不也是一样的，其实人家那也没那么可怕
: 民不患贫而患不均，反过来也是一样的，大家都不用过得多富但要有自己惨的人，媒体
: 只是兜售给你你心理需要的东西而已
| c*****i
发帖数: 11737 | 25 美国人之间何尝不是如此？
【在 c******a 的大作中提到】
: 其实，美国人就算知道了她造假，他们的反映会是“看来中国人没有值得信任的”，而
: 不是其他
| t*****a
发帖数: 1002 | 26 印象中经济生活水平方面中国官媒也没说过朝鲜好话，普不普世，在这个问题上是一致的
【在 c*****i 的大作中提到】
: 是啊，朝鲜是被普氏媒体妖魔化的典型．现在这个时代，最不能相信的就是记者，尤其
: 报道中国的美国记者和中国普氏记者，几乎都是只报他想让你听得那部分．
| w*******t
发帖数: 845 | 27 人家那不是在做报道，人家是在编故事
手法比中宣部还卑鄙
不，其实中宣部和普世媒体是一家的。
【在 c*****i 的大作中提到】
: 是啊，朝鲜是被普氏媒体妖魔化的典型．现在这个时代，最不能相信的就是记者，尤其
: 报道中国的美国记者和中国普氏记者，几乎都是只报他想让你听得那部分．
| d**e
发帖数: 2420 | 28 这一次英媒很给力，美媒衰了。
http://t.sohu.com/people?uid=9651952
英国主流报纸对傅苹事件的报道有冲着美国人去的意思。《每日电讯报》的标题是“米
歇尔·奥巴马赞扬过的华人作者遭到怀疑”，《卫报》则提到傅苹在推销书的访谈中吹
嘘她2010年出席加奥巴马总统的国情咨文演讲后，米歇尔请她去白宫喝睡前饮料。
英国《每日电讯报》今天报道了我和其他华人质疑傅苹回忆录的真实性，较详细介绍了
我的分析。可能因为傅苹是美国人，这回英国媒体的表现真是可圈可点，比美国媒体客
观中立得多。http://t.itc.cn/UNmVb | d*****g
发帖数: 4364 | 29 当心被举报 前几天我发了几句评论 被举报了
其实用说谎抹黑中国就是一种下贱 还不让说 咳
【在 b****l 的大作中提到】
: 这个复评就是个sb，分特
| d**e
发帖数: 2420 | 30 法新社的报道，最后骗子的一句话很搞，回她一句we support human kindness, but
not lies.
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/china-bloggers-vilify-us-executives-me
China bloggers vilify US executive's memoirs
A Chinese-born businesswoman's harrowing tales of gang-rape and murder in
the Cultural Revolution years have come under fire from web vigilantes who
accuse her of duping impressionable US readers.
Ping Fu, who went on to found US technology firm Geomagic and sits on a
White House panel on innovation, has described dreadful experiences in her
rags-to-riches autobiography "Bend, Not Break" and media interviews.
Born in 1958, Fu said she was gang-raped and forced into child labour in a
factory, and that on one occasion the Maoist Red Guards dismembered a
teacher with four horses pulling on each limb to terrify her and other
children.
She was jailed in the early 1980s for writing a university thesis on female
infanticide due to the one-child policy, she said, only for paramount leader
Deng Xiaoping to intervene. The book says she was later "quietly deported".
"Bend, Not Break" has reached the New York Times bestseller lists, and drew
rave reviews, before questions raised by a number of Chinese Internet
sleuths cast doubt on key parts of Fu's life story.
She has admitted to some exaggeration in the book but has blamed that on a
faulty memory or intervention by her editors, insisting her memoirs are not
a fabrication and accusing her Chinese critics of waging a "smear campaign".
But her chief attacker Fang Zhouzi, a prominent blogger known for hunting
down celebrity lies, says he will stay on the offensive.
"Fu Ping not only fabricated her tragic experiences during the Cultural
Revolution, but also fabricated what she saw during the period when China
strictly enforced the family planning policy," he wrote in his latest
article.
"Because she knows clearly that apart from the Cultural Revolution, the
family planning policy is another Chinese scandal that can most easily touch
Americans' nerves," Fang said.
Fu told a US radio station last month that she personally witnessed the
killings of hundreds of baby girls, and drew official ire for exposing this
in her thesis.
Fang says it is incredible that she could have seen so much infanticide, and
says that if Deng had intervened on her behalf when she was jailed, nobody
would have dared to expel her from the country.
He has also dismissed her account of the teacher's equine quartering as "
easy to tell but hard to conduct", adding in an email to AFP: "I will
continue to write" about her.
Fang suggested that Fu -- who uses a Western word order for her name --
invented the stories to enlist sympathy from US officialdom and build a
grittier image of survival to embellish her credentials in the business
world.
"No matter how fantastic your experiences sounded, Americans would believe
them to be true. Some people told so many lies that they even started
believing it themselves," he said.
A decade after leaving China, Fu became a naturalised citizen in 1992 and
was given an "Outstanding American by Choice" award by the US government
last year.
In its citation, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services agency said she
"was imprisoned during college for her research into China's history of
infanticide".
But a Chinese teacher who was on the same university course as Fu said that
if she had been jailed for her thesis, none of their fellows was aware of it.
"The heroine in the story was indeed good at writing, this was a fact,"
Zilanzhai Zhuren wrote last month in his own blog. "But what she wrote was
mostly literary novels."
Fu responded to some of Fang's accusations in her blog on huffingtonpost.com
, blaming media misinterpretations and a typo in her book for any
misunderstanding.
But she admitted that Fang's analysis of the dismemberment-by-horse was "
more rational and accurate" than her "emotional" memory.
In interviews, she has said that the word "deport" was not in her manuscript
but suggested by her editors to "attract readers", and that "we could say
that was a literary interpretation".
But on Twitter, Fu described one of Fang's exposes as "full of errors". "He
should fact-check," she added, while promising to "correct and rectify
imperfection" in the book's next printing.
"I want Chinese people to know that I love China because I grew up there,"
she said. "My book was attacked by people who didn't read my book and piled
on to hurt and insult me. Please support human kindness." | | | d**e
发帖数: 2420 | 31 美媒为什么不报道，下面的说法貌似有些道理。
http://berlinfang.blog.163.com/blog/static/11667071620131811832
另外，就好比我们的政协开会有时候需要“无知少女”（无党派、知识分子、少数民族
、女性）这些一样，美国现在极需树立的榜样，各项条件正好都被傅苹赶上。近日正是
辩论移民改革的关键时刻，奥巴马到处宣讲移民改革。而共和党在这个问题上本来就已
经吃亏，现在十分被动，也在寻找办法如何在移民问题上突围。在这种氛围之下，稍有
影响力的媒体，虽然不受命于政府，却也不便多讲对移民不大有利的话题。傅苹正好是
个自诩的移民中做得比较“成功”的一个。美国其他一些涉嫌造假的人，从《三杯茶》
的作者莫腾森到讲述苹果血汗工厂的Mike Daisey，因为没有移民和种族这种政治正确
问题上的牵扯，媒体就无情得多。Mike Daisey说的富士康的一些细节，性质比傅苹的
要轻得多，结果被NPR的Ira Glass 拷问得惨不忍睹。英国的《卫报》就没有美国媒体
的一些投鼠忌器，所以其报道更倾向于支持质疑者。
另外，奥巴马政府非常强调制造业，而傅苹也主打制造业这张牌，在此书出版前，她曾
经跟媒体吹嘘会彻底改变制造业，就仿佛她说她参与缔造了互联网一样。还有，她所在
的行业是高科技行业，她本人是女性，是移民，是创业者，没有哪一个说法，不是按照
美国现政府的说法量身定制。奥巴马政府鼓励高科技，鼓励中小企业创业，鼓励发展制
造业解决就业...傅苹似乎都赶上了，这是巧合，还是她所在公司为了进入视线所作的
一种包装？以前怎么没怎么听说过Geomagic这个公司？也没听说它有多大影响，怎么现
在突然一下横空出世，要制造一场制造业的革命？这种制造业的革命（号称as big as
the Internet)，本身是不是被这家公司制造出来的？这本身就是一个有趣的现象。 | d**e
发帖数: 2420 | 32 Fabrications fail as world flattens
Updated: 2013-02-19 08:01
By Berlin Fang ( China Daily)
Ping Fu, co-founder of software company Geomagic, recently had a
rollercoaster ride in the media spotlight with the release of her new book
Bend Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds, a memoir that documents her misery in
China and rise to glory in the United States. In China she was initially
lauded as an example of how social environments can break a person. To her
US readers, she was a symbol of the American Dream.
Her story soon caught the attention of myth-buster Fang Zhouzi who started
to expose the inaccuracies in her account. She also aroused the suspicions
of Chinese people living in the US, especially those with first hand
experience of the times she described. Within days, Fu fell from being
lauded as a heroine to being vilified as a liar.
Indeed, based on published reports and interviews, her stories do not agree
with each other. For instance, after the US Citizenship and Immigration
Services named her "Outstanding American by Choice" in 2012, Fu was
interviewed by China News, and she was profiled in this interview as "a
graduate student majoring in comparative literature" whose "competence in
languages" led her to study computer languages. In her new book she said she
could only say three words in English when she first came to the US. Other
reports show that she obtained her permanent residence in the US by seeking
political asylum. At that time, she probably felt she had to justify her
application with persecution stories like those described in the book.
The book may have its truthful elements, but to most Chinese readers it
seems that the majority of the facts have been bent too much to be
believable. It is puzzling to see that some non-Chinese readers have chosen
to defend her despite the lies that have been exposed. In a report about the
backlash, one reader thanks Fu for her stories as she shows the American
dream to be alive and well while the current culture in the US has
encouraged an entitlement mentality. Another reader commented on Twitter
that he suspects the Chinese government to be orchestrating negative reviews
in Amazon, where the book is listed. China's "cultural revolution" (1966-76
), a major era in Fu's book, was officially denounced by the Chinese
government in a resolution in 1981. It is a dark page in Chinese history. Fu
really did not need to use pulp fiction techniques to embellish or twist
her history to make it sound more melodramatic than it really was.
Fu's narration is more of the "scar literature" that has been popular in the
US. Such writing uses shallow sensationalism to dramatize personal
suffering. In her interviews and writing Fu comes across as a victim of
horrendous circumstances, such as gang rape by Red Guards. It is unnecessary
and dishonest to fabricate, exaggerate, misrepresent or create experiences
to tell a story to make herself sound greater than she really is.
If she had intended to blend fiction with her memoirs, her book would have
been better labeled fiction. But even now she continues to defend her
stories by trying to convince people of the authenticity of what she has
written. Dave Eggers wrote What is the What a few years ago about the
legendary story of Sudanese refuge Valentino Achak Deng. Eggers did not
pretend he could get all the facts straight based on Deng's narration, hence
the categorization of the book as a fictionalized memoir.
Fu's downfall is thought provoking. Some may consider her to be a victim of
jealousy. If that is the case, Yao Ming would be attacked everyday, but he
is not. Neither do people question Nien Cheng or Ningkun Wu, who both gave
truthful accounts of their personal sufferings during the "cultural
revolution" for an English audience. Public anger toward Fu comes from a
dislike of dishonest people, and the concern that such people reinforce
negative racial stereotypes. I think most people in the world have a low
tolerance for dishonesty. Fu is just getting what Greg Mortensen got for
bending facts in his book Three Cups of Tea.
In the past, when geographical and language barriers kept information from
spreading, Fu would probably have got away with her fabrications without
anybody noticing. Chinese businessman Tang Jun could probably also have
safely bragged about his glories in the US as only a handful people in China
knew anything about life in the outside world. However, it is increasingly
difficult to make "I am big in America" or "I am big in China" claims that
are untrue without public exposure. People leave digital trails that
eventually lead the public to the truth.
Fu may claim that the world is 3-D, but as far as information flow goes it
is still dangerously flat.
The author is a US-based instructional designer, literary translator and
columnist writing on cross-cultural issues.
(China Daily 02/19/2013 page8) | h******r
发帖数: 1578 | 33 "Break, Not Bend: A Lie in Two Worlds | L*********n
发帖数: 1225 | 34 The book title should be changed into:
Bend, not Break: How I Lied in Two Worlds | d**e
发帖数: 2420 | 35 方舟子：《纽约时报》今天就傅苹事件发表了一则评论http://t.itc.cn/U86bT ，说是无法知道傅苹是否在撒谎。并提到《纽约时报》曾在1983年4月报道《人民日报》当年3月3日报道过溺弃女婴现象十分严重，以此暗示也许这真的和傅苹的论文有关。我很遗憾《纽约时报》也不去查对很容易查对的事实：那是《全国妇联负责同志就安徽十五名妇女来信发表谈话》，能和傅苹的所谓论文扯上什么关系？
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/world/asia/21iht-letter21.htm
Letter from China
Ensnared in the Trap of Memory
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW
Published: February 20, 2013
BEIJING — “I remember we heard a nightingale together, on the boulevard
near the Sacred Heart convent. But there are no nightingales in North
America.” So wrote Mary McCarthy in “Memories of a Catholic Girlhood,”
challenging the reliability of memory.
Reviewing the book in 1957 in The New York Times, Charles Poore said, “We
all add to our memories of childhood appropriate bits of what we have read
or heard since then.”
The fallibility of memory may partly explain the fracas surrounding “Bend,
Not Break,” a recently published business-cum-personal memoir by Ping Fu,
born in 1958, of growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution, moving
to the United States and founding a successful software company called
Geomagic.
Ms. Fu, too, has her “nightingale” moment, in Nanjing. Red Guards, she
writes, had sent her there from her childhood home of Shanghai (where she
was staying without a residence permit, with relatives) to live at the
university where her father taught. (In her narrative, her parents were
banished to the countryside soon after she arrived.) There she was forced by
Red Guards to watch a teacher “quartered by four horsemen on the soccer
field.”
Details like that have produced a storm of opposition from some Chinese,
especially in the United States, who accuse Ms. Fu of lying.
The Cultural Revolution was bad for many, they agree, but it’s important to
be accurate. Ms. Fu’s story simply isn’t.
“I personally feel that it is very important to use facts and rigid
analysis instead of fabricated stories to bridge various knowledge and
cultural gaps between China and the outside world,” Kevin Tu, who is
Chinese and lives in the United States, wrote in an e-mail.
“While I can easily enjoy reading books such as ‘Mao’s Great Famine”’
— Frank Dikötter’s account of the brutality of the Great Leap Forward
— “I just couldn’t accept the fact someone like Fu Ping intentionally
misbehaved for personal gain,” Mr. Tu wrote.
Accusations are flying in online forums. Calm voices are hard to find.
Other things the critics don’t believe: that she was “quietly deported”
to the United States in 1984 for writing a university thesis about female
infanticide; that she was gang-raped by Red Guards.
On that last point, Ms. Fu said by telephone from the United States, “They
are in denial.”
Rape happened during the Cultural Revolution, she said. She stands by her
statement that she was told to leave, though she agrees “deported” wasn’t
a good choice of word.
And Ms. Fu has since said that the quartering by horse was an “emotional
memory,” something Ms. McCarthy explored. There may be more admissions to
come. “If I have made any factual errors, I’d be more than happy to
correct them in the next printing,” she said.
Her critics will be glad to hear that. Perhaps what’s needed to calm the
storm is for Penguin, her publisher, to appoint a fact-checker.
Yet the difficulty is that the instant something sounds bizarre, closer
investigation finds kernels of possible truth.
She writes that state agents abducted her after they heard about her
infanticide paper and that she was detained for three days in stinking
conditions. Such things still happen in China.
Ms. Fu sent me a scanned copy of what she said was a letter from a fellow
student, dated May 1982. In the hand-written letter, he mentions that Ms. Fu
left university abruptly, without graduating, as all the others were
finishing their theses — under mysterious circumstances that classmates
gossiped about but didn’t understand.
He writes that college officials were saying that Ms. Fu had a nervous
breakdown after being jilted. A classmate was named as the former boyfriend.
Ms. Fu said in the interview that this was a cover-up and that in reality
she was in political trouble, that her thesis had been secretly passed by a
sympathetic teacher to a newspaper and traveled up the chain. Eventually,
she said, it caused a national and international scandal about the abuses of
the one-child policy.
In the letter, the classmate wonders if the story about the jilting was true
. He writes that he spoke to the jilter “for about an hour” about Ms. Fu,
but the man was distant and “He says he was also a victim.”
By 1983, state news media were reporting on female infanticide. “At present
, the phenomena of butchering, drowning and leaving to die female infants
and maltreating women who have given birth to female infants have been very
serious. It has become a grave social problem,” People’s Daily reported on
March 3 of that year, according to a New York Times article dated April 11.
If it’s difficult to establish the truth, there’s a reason: 37 years after
the Cultural Revolution, it’s still impossible to research, discuss or
publish about it freely in China. Censorship is harsh — there are well-
known people who have much to hide about what they did, some say. Guilt
lingers. The result is confusion, despite a deep well of personal memory (
memory again!). The field is open for denial, exaggeration and shame. “
Proof” is often merely recollection, Ms. McCarthy’s unreliable friend.
Is Ms. Fu telling the truth, but people just don’t know it? Or are “
nightingales” singing in a self-dramatizing narrative? Until China opens
its archives and permits open debate, we won’t know. Not for sure. Because
even “experts” on China are often wrong. The facts just aren’t available. | d**e
发帖数: 2420 | 36 BBC: 海外伤痕文学与“高大全”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china_watch/2013/02/130219_c
蒙克
BBC中文网2013年2月20日, 格林尼治标准时间11:23
美国成功的华裔商人傅苹出自传中诉说幼年在中国的悲惨经历受到众多质疑。如果
能抛开争议不说，这本取名为《弯而不折》（Bent not Break）如果能畅销，应该会激
励更多读者为实现“美国梦”而努力。
本来《弯而不折》或许能成为一本励志的书籍，也能成为批判集权制度下人民遭受
苦难，赞扬美国社会提供追求和实现梦想机会的作品。但是这部《自传》由于其真实性
受到读者质疑，被一些人比作“传奇小说”。
某种程度上，《弯而不折》作为文学作品，同70年代中国的“伤痕文学”如出一辙
，二者都是政治上“拨乱反正”在文学领域的表现。
忆苦思甜
为傅苹出版自传的出版商的推销宣传中，大多是类似“忆苦思甜”式的评论：“集
权残酷统治的受害者到美国获得了新生，甚至成为财富500家企业的总裁”。
还有评论说“傅苹的自传无与伦比，是2012年出版的书中最好的一本”。许多述评
作者赞叹傅苹“这位女性从毛泽东时代在中国渡过艰辛童年，后来奋斗成为美国高技术
行业的顶层高管的经历，说她体现了美国梦想。”
还有其他美国成功人士说，“百折不挠是如今商界和生活的最重要的素质，傅苹的
故事对此作了最佳诠释，她还体现了优雅及其他优秀品质。还有评论把傅苹自传的主题
拔高到体现了人性的顽强和乐观。”
一位书评作者赞叹道：“傅苹的经历可以和英雄传奇小说的内容媲美”。
但是恰恰由于这种“传奇性”，傅苹的经历受到来自许多人的质疑，包括她在中国
和美国的同学，也包括著名的“打假斗士”方舟子。
撒谎与诚信
打假人士方舟子对傅苹小说中描述的经历予以质疑
方舟子指美国商人傅苹取名为《弯而不折》的自传“漏洞百出”。方舟子说，傅苹
回忆录不仅讲了她在中国文革期间和以后的经历，也讲了她在美国的传奇经历。他通过
对书中大量细节的分析，认为这前后两部分经历都离奇得经不起推敲，并且指傅苹是个
“事无巨细的习惯性说谎者”。
傅苹在其自传中谈到年幼在中国被送进劳改营并且被轮奸，还说自己在大学就读期
间因发表关于妇女杀婴的论文被中国“驱逐出境”。傅苹在2010年接受美国电视采访时
说，她在文革期间在红卫兵的威逼下亲眼目睹了一名老师被“四马分尸”处死。
在亚马逊售书网站上，有一些亲身经历过文革磨难的人评论说，傅苹的所谓“经历
”大部分（如果不是全部），都是来自“编造、想象、过度夸张甚至故意误导”。
还有在美华人读者评论说，“毫无疑问，傅苹绝对聪明、有足够高的情商能够蒙骗
美国移民局和吹捧她的福布斯杂志和其他媒体，但她最大的错误是试图去中国欺骗中国
人。”
批判者说，揭露傅苹未必是为文革或毛泽东辩护，而是因为傅苹触及做人的底线。
他们认为撒谎者不该受到如此嘉奖，诚信也不该如此受到摧残。还有评论说傅苹为个人
利益而编造苦难经历是对那些真正遭受苦难的人们的侮辱。
＂伤痕文学＂
文革时期的文艺被批模式化，即通过“矮小缺”来突出“高大全”。
假若能抛开内容真伪的争议，或许可以把傅苹的书当作海外“伤痕文学”看。自70
年代西方出版了苏联作家索尔仁尼琴的《古拉格群岛》以后，许多离开中国去西方的作
者在西方也陆续发布过类似的对1949年以后中国的控诉作品。
中国70年代在文革结束后出现的所谓“伤痕文学”主要描写人们在文革中受到肉体
和精神伤痛，附带对文革时期的反思。在政治上，在所谓“拨乱反正”年代这种特有的
文学现象还起到了树立新正统，否定“极左”时期旧正统的意义。
有人说伤痕文学使文学人物摆脱了“三突出”（即强调突出正面人物，突出英雄人
物，突出主要英雄人物）和“假、大、空”等程式化的说教。伤痕文学的确迎合了当时
人们对过去“三突出”和“高大全”脸谱化文艺的反感，反映了大部分中国民众的真实
感受。
从发布在亚马逊网站的众多书评和其他评论中可以看出，《弯而不折》受到的评判
和抗议主要来自出身中国大陆的读者和华裔读者。这部海外“伤痕文学”起码没有引起
文革时期亲历者的共鸣。作者似乎为迎合美国和西方读者，有意无意地走到了当初的“
伤痕文学”的反面，即通过“蓝阴暗”（或“矮小缺”）来弱化和仇化敌对方面以突出
“伟光正”（或“高大全”）。
在大批声讨和抗议声中，在亚马逊网站上有评论似乎很冷静地提醒大家：“这些批
评毫无疑问令傅苹的信誉无可挽回地受到损害，但是在这场争执中最大的赢家是中共政
权”。评论说，由于傅苹低劣地描写严肃历史，激怒了中国人，使他们看到西方媒体无
视事实，认为西方的政治宣传并不比中共的宣传机器逊色。 | h***f
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