王丹
4个月前
晚上, 费正清中心举办晚宴,招待前来参加明天一整天为纪念Merle Goldman教授举办的研讨会的学人们. 回到饭店, 我的心情久久不能平静. 1998年我到了美国就进入哈佛大学, 落脚地就是费正清中心.那时候,真是中心最辉煌的黄金时代. 除了老爷子--开山鼻祖费正清--已经不在之外, 他的大弟子们和同侪们排开阵型, 阵容堪称豪华: 专精毛泽东研究的施拉姆(Stuart Schram), 文革学权威麦克法夸尔(Roderick MacFarquhar), 写作《叫魂》的孔飞力(Philip Kuhn) , 思想史大家史华慈(Benjamin Schwartz), 当然, 还有专攻中国知识分子研究的谷梅(Merle Goldman), 每一位在各自的学术领域都是全世界数一数二的权威. 那时我刚刚入学, 费正清中心还在原来的旧楼里, 这些顶尖大师们统统都健在, 每周中午的午餐会大都会列席参与讨论. 所有其他学校的中国研究专业的学生, 应当都羡慕死我们了吧! 那是多么幸福的时代啊, 能够跟这么多大师级学者学习, 哪怕是一点点皮毛, 都是宝贵的精神财富. 一转眼二十多年过去了, 大师们陆续凋零, 刚刚提到的那些大师们都不在了.但是, 费正清中心的底子实在是太厚实了. 在损失了那么多大师之后, 今晚出席的阵容, 还是群星闪耀: 已经九十高龄的柯文(Paul Cohen), 前燕京学社社长裴宜理(Elizabeth Perry), 即将退休的傅士卓( Joseph Fewsmith), 从加拿大赶过来的齐慕实 (Timothy Cheek), 名单拉开, 仍然不愧是美国东亚研究的重镇. 这还没有算上因事无法出席的我的导师柯伟林(William Kirby)和宋史专家包弼德(Peter Bol)呢. 当然, 这些老师们大多也都年届八十以上,纷纷退休或即将退休了. 费正清中心的辉煌, 不知道还能保持多久. 但是对于从1998年开始每天在费正清中心看书听讲, 到今天仍旧是中心的nonresident associate的我来说, 费正清中心就是我的精神家园. 每每想起过去做学生的时光, 还是内心温暖. 正因为如此, 今天晚上这难得的聚会, 当然让我这个后生晚辈激动不已, 为了那曾经的美好年代, 为了那些提供了丰厚学时的老师们.
王丹
5个月前
今天收到自由亚洲电台(RFA)中文部的通知, 即日起暂停评论栏目. 未来是否能恢复呢? 我不知道. 1998年4月我被流放到美国, 5月就开始与RFA的合作, 为他们撰写评论, 至今已经27年. 这是我个人写的时间最久的一个专栏, 恐怕也是RFA评论作者中最资深的一个(至少是之一)了吧. 对了, RFA也是我流亡到美国后, 第一个拜访的媒体单位. 虽然不是正式员工, 但27年的合作, 我对RFA的感情是深厚的. 在这里, 要感谢RFA提供平台, 让我可以有发声的管道; 感谢中文部的很多好朋友在编辑工作上的努力, 以及对于中国的各种议题所进行的大量新闻工作.也要谢谢收听RFA的很多听众, 在过去的岁月中所给予我的鼓励. RFA被迫关闭, 是令人遗憾和痛惜的事情. 但既然已经发生, 我们也必须面对现实. 其实, 在自媒体开始主导舆论场域的今天, 危机, 或许也是转机. 失去RFA专栏这个平台, 对我个人来说当然是一个损失, 但或许也是一个机会, 让我更有动力, 去开拓新的在中国议题上发声的可能. 未来, 没有了传统媒体的平台, 我会更多地转向经营自媒体的部分. 我对于中国问题的看法, 将会主要转移到油管频道“王丹学堂”()上发表, 在这里, 也恳请各位能够继续给予支持. 您可以收看,分享, 如果您愿意给予更多的支持, 更欢迎您能够订阅. 我们都应该知道, 推动中国的改变, 归根到底, 还是海内外华人自己的事情. 我们在海外有几千万华人, 如果能够整合资源, 力量不会小于任何政府能够提供的支持.在此我也呼吁有意愿尝试做一些事情的朋友, 大家来共同构想和规划在新的局势下, 我们自己能够如何团结合作, 能够以怎样的方式做什么事情, 来填补美国之音和自由亚洲留下的空间. 我相信, 这会比键盘抱怨更有意义. 自由亚洲电台或许会成为历史, 但对于自由的追求, 不会也不应停止.
王丹
7个月前
根據台灣《自由時報》轉述BBC的報導, 中國碩博士生畢業後的就業率僅達三成, 大部分人畢業即失業. 以下是報導詳情: “中國經濟持續低迷,青年失業率居高不下,很多年輕人擁有知名大學的博碩士學位,卻從事學非所用的低薪工作,引發望子成龍鳳的父母親友不滿。《英國廣播公司》(BBC)訪問多名中國學非所用的大學畢業生,直言中國就業市場環境不佳,已被迫改變對「好工作」的看法,語氣中透露諸多無奈。 現年25歲,剛取得金融碩士學位的孫展,原本希望能在投資銀行找到一份「賺很多錢」的高薪工作,但一直無法如願,如今將去南京一家火鍋店當服務員。 在當前中國經濟持續低迷下,高學歷人才從事低技能工作的現象愈加普遍。物理碩士做了中學的工友,哲學研究生成了外賣員,甚至北京清華大學博士申請了輔警職位。 由於中國青年失業率居高不下,不少大學畢業生無法找到學以致用的工作,面對生活壓力,不得不選擇低薪行業或重新調整職業期望。 在得知名校畢業的兒子將去火鍋店當服務員後,孫展的父母感到不滿,這讓他倍感壓力。孫展說:「畢竟,我讀書讀了很多年,上了一所相當不錯的學校。家人為我選擇這樣的工作感到尷尬,他們原本希望我成為公務員或當官。但這是我自己的選擇。」 香港城市大學公共暨國際事務學系副教授張珺表示:「目前中國的就業形勢確實非常艱難,所以我估計很多年輕人不得不重新調整自己的期望。」她說,許多中國大學畢業生為了擁有更好的前景而選擇工讀更高的學位,但現實的就業環境卻打擊了他們。 擁有香港科技大學金融碩士學位、現年29歲的吳丹,原本期望能在上海的金融業找到合適的職位,但因企業開出的條件和令她不滿意,最後沒有接受這些工作,最終不顧家人反對,選擇了從事運動按摩行業。 吳丹說:「就業市場真的很艱難。對於我的許多碩士同學來說,這是他們第一次找工作,但找到工作的人卻很少。」 吳丹開始接受運動醫學培訓, 目前是上海一家運動傷害按摩診所的實習生,但這個決定讓家人難以接受。她說:「他們覺得我曾經擁有一個很好的工作,學歷背景也很有競爭力,不理解我為什麼會選擇這麼低門檻,需要做體力勞動的工作,薪水還那麼少。」 中國智聯招聘網發布的《2024年大學生就業力調查報告》顯示,碩博士畢業生就業率僅為33.2%,較2023年下降17%,也低於大學畢業生的43.9%。 近年來,中國大學畢業生面臨前所未有的就業挑戰。2024年,大學畢業生人數達到1179萬,較2023年增加21萬人,創下歷史新高,但面對激烈的就業競爭,許多畢業生發現自己難以找到理想的工作。 張珺表示,中國的大學畢業生被迫改變對「好工作」的看法,很多中國公司,包括許多科技公司,已經解僱了大量員工,曾經吸納大學畢業生的經濟領域,如今提供低標準的工作條件,這些領域中的工作機會也在逐漸消失。
王丹
7个月前
以下就是反对设置“中共委员会”的联署信和联署团体: December 9, 2024 The Honorable Mike Johnson The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries Speaker Minority Leader U.S. House of Representatives U.S. House of Representatives H-232, The Capitol H-204, The Capitol Washington, DC 20515 Washington, DC 20515 Dear Speaker Johnson and Leader Jeffries: CC: Chairman John Moolenaar & Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi: We at Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC and the 52 undersigned organizations are writing to express our strong opposition to a reauthorization of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (Select Committee) in the upcoming 119th Congress. While we are clear-eyed about the legitimate national security and economic concerns with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – including but not limited to cybersecurity, intellectual property rights, and human rights abuses – we strongly believe that renewing the Select Committee would not effectively advance the shared goal of seriously addressing these issues.1 Instead, reauthorizing the Select Committee would only continue to specifically target an individual community in a manner that will lead to a rise in anti-Asian and anti-Chinese sentiment in this country at a time when Asian immigrants and Asian Americans are already especially vulnerable to racial profiling, discrimination, violence, and hate after the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the Select Committee’s formation in 2023, we have opposed a number of bills that it either has played an active role in developing or otherwise referred to as “critical pieces of legislation.”2 Most recently, during the problematically-dubbed “China Week,” the House voted on two bills despite vocal opposition, one of which would reinstate the now-defunct “China Initiative” – a program which used racial profiling to target Chinese immigrant and Chinese American scientists and accuse them of largely unsubstantiated claims of espionage – and another that recalls past efforts to use misguided claims of national security to hinder Asian immigrants and other marginalized communities from becoming land owners3 . 1 Messaging Guidance, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, February 27, 2024, . 2 Media Statement, The Select Committee on the CCP, “25 China Week Bills,” September 12, 2024, bills#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20DC%20%2D%20Chairman%20John%20Moolenaar,threats%20posed%20by%20t he%20Chinese. 3 Letter, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, “In Opposition of ‘China Week’ Framing,” September 11, 2024, ; Press Statement, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, “Stop AAPI Hate, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, Asian Scholar Forum Condemn U.S.-China Legislation Rooted in Xenophobia,” September 12, 2024, american-scholar-forum. 2 We have also expressed concern regarding Select Committee members’ consistent uses of fearmongering, hostile, and aggressive rhetoric when characterizing the U.S.-China relationship. For instance, a May 17, 2023 hearing covered the “economic warfare” of the CCP, notwithstanding the fact that witnesses were asked questions about intellectual property theft and exploitation of U.S. markets, rather than either country’s military or weaponry.4 Just a month later on June 18th. 2023, the Select Committee subjected all shipments from China to scrutiny when it requested records of Chinese-originating mail from the United States Postal Service for FY21 and FY22, adopting a blunt approach when it required narrow and deliberate action.5 Most recently in August 2024, Chairman Moolenaar spoke to the media about a largely imagined fear of CCP land purchases near American military bases.6 His appearance and comments doubled down on legislation that has too often been overly broad and not narrowly tailored, so as to threaten the civil rights and liberties of innocent individuals.7 Finally, it is also important to note that the House is already well equipped to address PRC- related concerns without reauthorizing the Select Committee. According to its own website, the Select Committee identifies multiple issues of interest, including TikTok, the Uyghur genocide, and the national defense, and yet they all clearly fall within the domain of permanent congressional committees that, unlike the Select Committee, have the authority to take action on legislative items. Given its overlapping topics of interest with other congressional committees, it is clear that the Select Committee is both unnecessary to advance critical U.S.-China legislation, and jurisdictionally redundant. Instead of reauthorizing a committee that perpetuates a harmful, zero- sum and adversarial framework and pours more fuel on existing racial animus, the House should redirect much-needed resources elsewhere. As leading civil society organizations across a spectrum of issues, we urge you to decline reauthorizing the Select Committee and chart a new course on U.S.-China relations, one that appropriately balances our country’s interests with the individual rights of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans. The downstream effects of reauthorization are clear for the AAPI community: discrimination and racial profiling, particularly against Chinese immigrants or Chinese Americans, who will be unwittingly caught in the crossfire through no fault of their own. We must remain nuanced and deliberate in our tone and language, especially when discussing these complicated global affairs with severe domestic consequences. Sincerely, 4 Press Release, The Select Committee on the CCP, “ICYMI: Select Committee on the CCP Fires Back at CCP’s Economic Warfare in Prime Time Hearing,” May 17, 2023, releases/icymi-select-committee-ccp-fires-back-ccps-economic-warfare-prime-time-hearing. 5 Letter, The Select Committee on the CCP, Gallagher, Comer Request Chinese Shipment Data from USPS Post Master, June 27, 2023, subsites/selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-06-27-letter-to-state-sta- agreement.pdf. 6 Press Release, The Select Committee on the CCP, “ICYMI: Moolenaar Joins NewsNation to Discuss the CCP’s Land Purchases, Flow of Fentanyl, and Authoritarian Alignment,” August 5, 2024, land-purchases-flow-fentanyl-and. 7 Press Release, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, “Historic Legal Battle Unveiled Against Discriminatory Florida Housing Law SB 264,” May 6, 2024, release/historic-legal-battle-unveiled-against-discriminatory-florida-housing-law-sb-264. 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