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发帖数: 4385 | 1 Banquet Speech
Chen Ning Yang's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1957
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen:
First of all allow me to thank the Nobel Foundation and the Swedish Academy
of Sciences for the kind hospitality that Mrs. Yang and I have so much
enjoyed. I also wish to thank especially Professor Karlgren for his
quotation and his passage in Chinese, to hear which is to warm my heart.
The institution of the awarding of Nobel prizes started in the year 1901. In
that same year another momentous event took place of great historical
importance. It was, incidentally, to have a decisive influence on the course
of my personal life and was to be instrumental in relation to my present
participation in the Nobel festival of 1957. With your kind indulgence I
shall take a few minutes to go a little bit into this matter.
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence
of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe
conflict. The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture
should be brought into China. However, before a resolution was reached
reasons gave way to emotions, and there arose in the eighteen nineties
groups of people called I Ho Tuan in Chinese, or Boxers in English who
claimed to be able to withstand in bare flesh attack of modern weapons.
Their stupid and ignorant action against the Westerners in China brought in
1900 the armies of many European countries and of the U.S. into Peking. The
incident is called the Boxer War and was characterized on both sides by
barbarous killings and shameful lootings. In the final analysis, the
incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the
frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to
ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
It is also seen in history as settling, once and for all, the debate as to
how much Western culture should be introduced into China.
The war ended in 1901 when a treaty was signed. Among other things the
treaty stipulated that China was to pay the powers the sum of approximately
500 million ounces of silver, a staggering amount in those days. About ten
years later, in a typically American gesture, the U.S. decided to return to
China her share of the sum. The money was used to set up a Fund which
financed a University, the Tsinghua University, and a fellowship program for
students to study in the U.S. I was a direct beneficiary of both of these
two projects. I grew up in the secluded and academically inclined atmosphere
of the campus of this University where my father was a professor and
enjoyed a tranquil childhood that was unfortunately denied most of the
Chinese of my generation. I was later to receive an excellent first two
years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to
pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.
As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness
of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese
and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict. I should like to say that
I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to
modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I
have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work.
Prior to the speech, B. Karlgren, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences,
addressed the laureate: Mr Lee and Mr Yang, allow me to address a few
congratulatory words to you. For 50 years I have studied the literature,
history and art of your country and I cannot but whole-heartedly admire and
love it. Your culture of 3 000 years is really as it is said in the sacred
ancient hymn: "like the Kiang river, like the Han river, massive like the
mountains, voluminously flowing like the rivers." Now you two great scholars
have demonstrated that your country still today possesses men with just as
keen a power of intellect as the great thinkers of Ancient China. I think
that all Chinese, irrespective of regimes, will be sure to admire you and
say about you, in the words of a famous T'ang poet: "how can we for a single
day do without these men."
From Les Prix Nobel en 1957, Editor Göran Liljestrand, [Nobel
Foundation], Stockholm, 1958 | h******1
发帖数: 16295 | 2 Mr.Yang and I?
这是李政道说的吗? | h********0
发帖数: 12056 | 3 老杨沽名钓誉，非要Lee 同意他发言，理由是他年龄大。 | m*****e
发帖数: 10963 | 4 杨82这逼典型的自私小人，毫无厚道之德。。。
操。。。 | h******1
发帖数: 16295 | 5 该叫杨90了吧?
【在 m*****e 的大作中提到】
: 杨82这逼典型的自私小人，毫无厚道之德。。。
: 操。。。
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