社工課程
Friday, September 30th, 2005 梁祖彬主理的Social Welfare in China說了很多共產黨在1949年得國以後的政策和方針。打趣地說,這課程應該改名為The Rise of Communist China。中五時學中國近代史,黃冬曙老師只作重點化的教學,單要我們記得政策的名目和方針的路向,鮮會深究其背後的動機、脈絡和影響。料不到在大三之年,在社工生的課程裡,我再有機會為昔日所學近代史的雛形添點羽翼。
筆記裡,教授把不少共產黨的方針口號譯成英文,挺有趣的說,拿其中一段與大家分享分享。
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Apart from their other characteristics, China’s 600 million people have two remarkable peculiarities; they are, first at all, poor, and secondly, blank. That may seem like a bad thing, but it is really a good thing. People want change, want to do things, want revolution. […]