2010年4月24日星期六

......我想起Lucian Pye...

有來有往的朋友,當然還包括當年才俊團的成員。提起才俊團,飛哥忽爾說:「跟你講個笑話!」原來,他早前跟李國能、李柱銘等碰面,李國能突然問他:「幾時帶我地去北京見世侄!」世侄者,正是現時主管香港事務的國家副主席習近平也。當年他們到北京見的那位書記習仲勛,就是現今不少香港政客事事要逢迎的習近平之父!當然,一向幽默兼且早已沒有回鄉證的李柱銘也來湊興,插嘴問:「係囉、係囉,幾時帶我地去見世侄?!」「李國能宣布退休之後,個人都輕鬆哂!哈哈!」早已退下政壇的飛哥,當然明白到無官一身輕的道理。

(Kong. HKEJ 24 April 2010)

Research Article




The State and the Individual: An Overview Interpretation (CQ-1991-Issue 127, 443-466 Cambridge University Press)
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Lucian W. Pye

It could be that no people have ever outdone the Chinese in ascribing moral virtues to the state or in deprecating the worth of the individual. First Confucianism and then the Chinese version of Leninism went all out in extolling the importance of rulers and society and in minimizing the rights of individuals. The gap between the moral worth and the recognized rights of state and citizen in China was and remains huge both because of the way the Chinese have consistently given paramountcy to the state and the ways in which they have subordinated the individual to the group. The extraordinary imbalance in the relations of the state and individuals provides both the structural and the cultural bases for the human rights practices which are now the most contentious issues between China and the west, especially the United States. What is outrageous to Americans can be for most Chinese normal expectations – although since Tiananmen a majority may feel that the state has gone too far.

(Also look at: 69 Foreign Aff. 56 (1989-1991) China: Erratic State, Frustrated Society; Pye, Lucian W.)