与贾樟柯对话

夏威夷电影节都快闭幕了，才猛然醒悟，在不抓住贾樟柯这个尾巴，作为记者的自己实在不能原谅自己了。

22日，贾樟柯做客夏威夷大学，播放了他最成功的一部电影《山峡好人》（Still Life）。这部电影确实很独特，沿袭的导演一贯使用非专业演员的路数，除了赵涛这个唯一的专业演员显得格格不入外，其他演员的都特别自然。整个拍摄过程只用了10天，抢在三峡拆迁的历史就要被淹没前，通过外乡人的视角，拍下了重庆奉节县的生存状态。

像这样的影片在商业影院是没有票房的。贾樟柯说，国内也有人曾努力建立文艺片影院，但最终没有成功。像《三峡好人》这样不娱乐、不讨好的影片要与Avatar竞争，实在争不过。

但就如当初的《黄土地》被禁，他相信，《黄土地》在当时虽然没有多少中国观众，但它最终对中国社会的影响远比票房超过2亿（当时票价2角）的《喜迎门》要大得多。出生于70年代，在80年代度过了青年时期的一代人，特别反感虚假的宣传。所以，为了纪录“真实”，他将用long take的现实主义手法，继续走独立制作的路。

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23日是实实在在的贾樟柯一日游。一早出发，在电影节上看了他的成名作《小武》，接着是panel discussion（其间犯了个大错，把一个英语说得很native，中文说得也不错的日本教授认成中国人；p，上来就问：“你不是从中国大陆来的吧？”）然后又看了贾樟柯此次获奖的纪录片《海上传奇》，仍然感觉赵涛的多余。

晚上颁奖，写稿，聊天，凌晨3点发现国内周末，没人挂在网上，找不到人帮忙传稿，急火攻心~后来开心网上遇到内罗毕的WYN，谢天谢地~~~

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这次的意外收获是，遇见了孔子学院的Cindy Lynn，超级崇拜~那个口译的水平是没得说的~

China Townhall

Bumping into the UH Warriors’s “cheer leaders”~

A glimpse at China Townhall, you will understand how high on agenda the American government put issues related to the rising China.

Every year, 55 locales across America and Greater China, people gather together, most of them American citizens, to watch the live webcast of U.S. Ambassador talking about US-China relations. Their Questions are posted promptly and answered by the Ambassador. On top of that, the local organizer will have a senior official or entrepreneur, veteran in dealing with Chinese, to deliver the local address and take the Q&A session.

On Monday afternoon, I was invited to such an event. Ambassador Huntsman diplomatically presented the American government’s views on China’s politics, economy, currency policies, environment protection…all those universally acknowledged and on the record on the part of America.

What strikes me as something new or something I wasn’t so aware of, is that Americans keep their hopes high in China’s next generation, probably the post 90s, to reconcile with the American values and embrace all those apply to China’s politic and economic reforms. Huntsman repeatedly declared, the young people of across the Pacific will creat a very different bilateral relations in the future.

I can’t help recalling, 10 years ago when I attended a New Oriental class in Beijing, the teacher told the class what his relative in America read about U.S.’ China policy. Americanize the Chinese values over the next 50 years, assimilate them, then China will be a U.S. Ally rather than a counter force in East Asia.

This is some kind of ideological warfare. Only after I came to America did I realize how good American government is at this and how far and wide they have extended in the Pacific region. Hawaii is 5 hours away from U.S. continent and 7 hours away from Japan. Its radiation of soft power reaches all Pacific islands, the other side of the ocean and even South Asia. The East West Center where I attend my program has numerous influential alumni. Apart from Obama’s mother, the list includes Indian Prime Minister and ?Chinese Vice Minister of Education. The U.S. ideological agents are infiltrating every corner of the world.

 How can the Americans be so sure that they can change us Chinese? Up to present, the Han civilization has been the most capable of assimilating other cultures. History tells us that the invaded Han invariably converted the invaders into Han philosophy believers and culture lovers

That being said, as a post 80′s, I dare not speak for the post 90′s. Whether the America’s persuading policy can succeed rest with them.

预备，开跑

还有两星期就是我最讨厌的America & the World的Midterm。

几大本书要读，只有全力以赴了~这两个星期要实现飞跃式发展。

不过几十个ID瞪着我，要全部cover已是不可能，但该如何偷懒呢？？再次面临最佳呈现次佳状态的考验。

PS，发现美国的本科生好幼哦~经济学课上讲边际效用递减定律时，学生问老师的问题是：第一杯啤酒下肚不一定效用比第二杯大吧，我一般喝到第二杯才能有buzz的感觉~

ZT: A comment on KRUGMAN’s recent piece of Take On China

Article Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/opinion/01krugman.html

As a nation we believe in child labor laws, environmental protection, occupational safety and health, a federal minimum wage, social security, medicaid, etc… We require our corporations and manufacturers to meet these requirements, however we leave these same corporations free to manufacture in other countries that do not have our same values and none of these requirements. These corporations can go oversees, pay low wages, mess up the environment, provide a dangerous work environment, pay no social security or medicaid and then sell their products in the United States without any recourse. If we want to level the playing field in the global economy than we should require corporations who sell their products in the United States to meet the same requirements that US corporations meet for wages, environment, safety, social security, etc… If they do not, then they pay a tariff or do not sell their product here. This would expand our values or create more manufacturing jobs in the US. In either event we win. Now the playing field is uneven and our workers are laid off by their employers who have no choice but to send their jobs overseas to retain their competitiveness. Our Congress, Corporations, and Government can and need to do better.