The book "The Record of the Grimm Conquest" (by Zhao Haosheng).
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A book called "Long Talk about American Journalism" (by Zhao Haosheng).
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Zhao Haosheng, a journalist known as a social activist, traveled between Chinese mainland and Taiwan, and extensively had in-depth contacts with people in the political, military, business circles, news and propaganda circles, and cultural and artistic circles, and wrote in-depth reports. He made contributions to promoting mutual understanding and exchanges between the two sides of the strait and to promoting the great cause of the reunification of the motherland. Zhao Haosheng is a famous Chinese-American scholar, a famous journalist and social activist, who has written a brilliant chapter with the heartfelt feelings of the sons and daughters of China and the country, and erected a monument to the times that looks up to him.
In 1920, the soldiers in Xi County, Henan Province, at the junction of the three provinces of Eyu and Anhui, were plagued by troubles and disputes. Zhao Haosheng, who was born at this time, grew up in the war chaos of "you sing and I appear". What made him most creepy was to watch the "beheading" at the county gate not far from home, when the heads landed, the excited cheers of the crowd, the corpses in different places, and the heads of people hanging in the city gate holes became the most terrifying memories.
When Zhao Haosheng was 9 years old, his father, who had been making a living outside the country for many years, sent him to Kaifeng to study. In the nearly ten years of reading career in Kaifeng, it laid the groundwork for Zhao Haosheng's future pen cultivation. In 1938, after graduating from middle school, 18-year-old Zhao Haosheng returned to Xixian County as a teacher in the anti-enemy training class, actively promoting the anti-Japanese struggle to save the country. Worried about his father, he decided to let him leave Xixian County and transfer to Sichuan via Wuhan to continue his studies. The following year, based on his personal experience in Wuhan being bombed by Japanese aircraft, he wrote and published a long-form newsletter titled "It's a Seed, Not a Dead Body", sowing the seeds of anti-Japanese patriotism. This news debut opened zhao Haosheng's career path of "uncrowned king".
Without any advice, Zhao Haosheng "crossed the river by feeling the stones", he interviewed and wrote, with his enthusiasm, agility, and full dedication, to make up for the lack of experience and political unfamiliarity; with his unique perspective, brushstrokes and feelings, he reported on the most lively and complex scenes in modern Chinese history. Accompanying the capital Chongqing is undoubtedly a "rich mine" of news. Zhao Haosheng successively successfully interviewed the entire process of the Chongqing negotiations and the "old CPPCC" meeting, which attracted national attention, and witnessed the wonderful scene of political wrestling between prominent figures in the political arena at that time. Later, he wrote "Premier Zhou Is Not Dead" and "Ye Shuai and Shelley" to recall the chongqing negotiations.
The famous documentary writer Wang Fan is Zhao Haosheng's "literary friend" who has forgotten his life, and he wrote in his masterpiece "Zhao Haosheng, a Generation of News Proud Sons", that he can see the three words "Zhao Haosheng" in newspapers almost every day, and gradually expanded from "Central Daily" to more than ten other newspapers. He finally stood out in the talented press. With the increase in popularity, Zhao Haosheng became more active in the press. Most legendarily, he was able to narrate the same message in two tones, one in the JoongAng Daily and one published in the Xinhua Daily. He repeatedly placed himself on the side of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Shen Junru, Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling, and other most prominent and eye-catching figures in the Chinese political arena at that time, so that Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao were able to call out his nickname "Little Fat Man".
Unexpectedly, Zhao Haosheng had a sudden idea, won the errand of the correspondent of the "Southeast Daily" in Japan, and crossed the east to extend his news perspective to the outside world. What he could never have imagined was that he would have to walk 25 years to return this time. At the beginning of Japan, Zhao Haosheng wrote a large number of reports and sent them to Shanghai's Southeast Daily and Hong Kong's Sing Tao Daily to let people understand the depression of the defeated countries. Sing Tao Daily attached great importance to his articles, and each one was published in the most prominent position, and soon Zhao Haosheng was officially appointed as the commissioner of Sing Tao Daily in Tokyo.
The liberation of Beijing, the liberation of Nanjing, and the founding of New China made Zhao Haosheng's blood boil abroad, and he began to look for a way to return to China. He wrote a letter to Hu Qiaomu, then director of the General Information Administration, introducing his background and wishing to return to China, and sending it to Beijing with a newsletter. Soon, Beijing's reply flew into Zhao Haosheng's hands and sent guangming ribao, which contained his manuscript, without mentioning anything about his longing for his return to China.
In 1952, he traveled far and wide to the University of Illinois in the central United States to study american diplomatic history. After graduation, he married his Japanese girlfriend Tomoe Imaizumi and was both hired to teach oriental languages and literature at Yale University in the United States.
In 1973, Premier Zhou Enlai issued a directive that Xinhua Invited Zhao Haosheng to return to China as a journalist. When he got his visa to return home from the Chinese Embassy in Canada, Zhao Haosheng couldn't help but burst into tears, and he waited for this visa for 25 years. He returned to his homeland, back to his hometown, and the visit in just 52 days was very fulfilling.
He said: "Although I am a foreigner, I am not an outsider. You can't just cool off without planting trees, just watch without participating. In China, his figure appeared in Xinhua News Agency and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, giving special lectures on American news and elections; he lived on the campus of Peking University to introduce the third wave of Education and information age in the United States to students; he became an honorary professor or visiting professor at Zhengzhou University, Henan University, Shandong University, Wuhan University, Shenzhen University and other universities; he even went to middle school students and used his own personal experience to tell the relationship between the motherland's prosperity and personal destiny. During each time he returned to China to give a lecture, Zhao Haosheng also interviewed celebrities from all walks of life and on all fronts, leaving behind a large number of valuable news materials and fine works.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, U.S.-China relations were full of twists and turns, which made Zhao Haosheng extremely anxious. He felt that the American media had overwhelmingly distorted reports on China but could not hear China's voice, and he did his best to write articles such as "How to Do Work for the American News Media" and "Rambling American Journalism"... Like a high-ranking lobbyist, he made a statement to the top level of the Chinese government and to all those who might make a difference, in order to get the US-China relationship out of the trough as soon as possible. At this time, Zhao Haosheng published an article entitled "Let the United States Hear China's Voice," which gave Taiwan some members of the US Congress and the media a clear eye, listed and analyzed its "public relations," and put forward suggestions for reference on how China should "publicize" the United States.
The great cause of the reunification of the motherland has always made Zhao Haosheng haunted. While threading the needles and threads for the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, he also actively made suggestions. On October 3, 1991, the Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao published his "Hotlines For Cross-Strait Establishment", "Leaders of the two sides may establish a 'hotline' so that when serious emergencies occur, misunderstandings can be eliminated and misunderstandings can be exchanged" which resonated with compatriots on both sides of the strait. On the eve of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, he actively "lobbied" Tung Chee-hwa, the son of his best friend Tung Hao-yun, to run for "chief executive", and he felt sincerely satisfied that "he himself has also played a slight role in this historic transformation"...
In 1999, Zhao Haosheng flew to Beijing to participate in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of New China. "Fifty years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, I have lived overseas for fifty years. Today, when celebrating the National Day at home and abroad, it is really touching to recall the homeland in the past fifty years. He wrote a book, recorded all these emotions, and wrote "Fifty Years of Home country", which was published in the Ta Kung Pao on September 29, 1999. On November 7, 2001, the premiere ceremony of Zhao Haosheng's memoir "Home Country in the Past Eighty Years" was held in Beijing. The 81-year-old Zhao Haosheng signed and sold books for two hours, until everyone worried that his body could not eat and repeatedly reminded him, he apologized and left. This was Zhao Haosheng's last return to China.
From 1973 to 2001, Zhao Haosheng made 86 round-trips between China and the United States, contributed to the exchanges and friendship between the Chinese and American peoples, contributed to the great cause of the motherland's economic construction and peaceful reunification, made painstaking efforts, and made special contributions. The party and state leaders spoke highly of his aspirations to serve the country and his patriotic deeds.
Zhao Haosheng's daughter said that her impression of her father since she was a child was that she always wrote on the desk, and when she wrote, she always shut herself in the house and posted a note outside the door "Do not disturb". Perhaps under the influence of Zhao Haosheng, his daughter also chose a career in writing, and when writing, she also posted a note on the door "Do not disturb".
Zhao Haosheng's daughter recalled that Zhao Haosheng's humorous speech at home made his family happy. She also hoped that her conversation would be as funny as her father's, and finally one day, she told a joke that made her father laugh, which made her extremely happy.
On June 29, 2012, Zhao Haosheng passed away at the age of 92. At Zhao Haosheng's memorial service, Zhao Haosheng's son said: "My father is an attractive person in my mind, with many friends, but when I came here today, I saw the scene so deserted, so I asked my mother why there were so few people coming?" Mom said that many of your father's friends are no longer alive. Only then did I realize that my father was a blessed man with a long life. His words made the atmosphere of the scene relaxed at once.
Charming and friendly, is the son's deepest impression of Zhao Haosheng: "Women from 7 to 70 years old will be attracted to him, that is, attending the party with Hillary Clinton present, and the glory of the father will not be covered up." "Getting along with his father Zhao Haosheng, what makes his son unforgettable for a lifetime is a past event when he was a child. When my son was a child, he stole a pair of batteries from a supermarket to play with electric toys. This matter was known to his father Zhao Haosheng, who reprimanded him greatly, "I have never seen my father so angry." After that, his father took him back to the supermarket, returned the battery and admitted his mistake.
Zhao Haosheng's son said that he learned a very important point from his father, that is, to do the best in everything: work should be first-class work, and people should be first-class people. Today, he educates his children with the same values.
On the first anniversary of Zhao Haosheng's death, Danfoss China vice president Che Wei said in a commemorative article for this yearless friend that when he was studying at Yale University, he had been cared for by the parents of Zhao Haosheng and Imaizumi Zhihui, who coached here. He also remembers that on the day he received his master's degree, Mr. and Mrs. Zhao Haosheng accompanied him to participate in all the activities of the graduation ceremony, and personally made the east that night, inviting friends to a restaurant near the Yale campus to celebrate. After graduation, he looked for a job in the United States and repeatedly benefited from Zhao Haosheng's recommendation. Therefore, he always had a fatherly reverence for Zhao Haosheng.
On May 25, 2014, Zhao Haosheng, who died overseas, finally returned to his hometown. His elderly wife traveled far and wide and brought half of his ashes back to his hometown of Xixian county for burial with his parents. The "Xinyang Daily" in Zhao Haosheng's hometown published a long-form newsletter entitled "Home Country in the Past Ninety Years - A Posthumous Account of a Generation of Famous Journalists Zhao Haosheng" to express his feelings of remembrance for Zhao Haosheng.