Mention the revolutionary martyrs, people who have read the novel "Red Rock" must be very familiar with Sister Jiang, she is undoubtedly a great heroine in China's modern history, and the revolutionary deeds are also singable and weeping. But what is less well known is that Sister Jiang's son Peng Yun now lives in the United States and is a tenured professor in the computer science department at the University of Maryland. As the son of Sister Jiang, a household name in China, why did he refuse to return to China?
Sister Jiang left a suicide note before her sacrifice, which was left to her husband Peng Yongwu's ex-wife Tan Zhenglun, in which she wrote: We have the confidence of victory and survival, and since the day I was imprisoned, I have made up my mind to go to prison for two years. In the current situation of change, there is a possibility of getting out of prison at the end of the year... We don't sit in jail for nothing, we keep learning... In the end, we are still people in the tiger's mouth, and our lives and deaths are uncertain... If you are unfortunate, Yun Er (Peng Yun) will give it to you, hoping to follow in the footsteps of your parents, to build a new China, and to fight to the end for the cause of the communist revolution. Children must not be arrogant (petite) to raise, rough clothes and light meals are enough...
It can be seen that although the situation is critical, Sister Jiang is still full of love for her son. After that, Tan Zhengying did not live up to Jiang Jie's expectations, becoming one of the first batch of public students in China, studying at Michigan Wayne State University and the University of Maryland, and obtaining master's and doctoral degrees. But what is puzzling is that after completing his studies, Peng Yun did not "build a new China" as Jiang Jie expected, but stayed in the United States and became a tenured professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland.
As for why Peng Yun is reluctant to return to the motherland, a reporter once interviewed Peng Yun on this issue, Peng Yun said: "I just want to do some learning, other aspects do not have too much ambition, in fact, at the beginning did not want to stay in the United States, otherwise my son would not go to the second year of high school." Later, the research was quite OK, so I continued to do so, and the matter of returning to China was delayed. When the reporter asked whether Peng Yun wanted to return to China, Peng Yun's answer was: "I have also worked hard, but I don't think about what to do in china, and I can't seem to find a point of focus." I used to come back when I wanted to make something big, but I got old before I could make it. ”
It turned out that the reason why Peng Yun was reluctant to return to China was that he just felt that he was old and could not make any useful contributions, so it was better to stay in the United States and concentrate on his research. However, although Peng Yun did not return to China, Peng Yun's son Peng Zhuangzhuang returned to Beijing after graduation and is currently a global managing partner of McKinsey & Company and a core member of the telecommunications and high-tech industries in Greater China.