雜感019

．先來回憶一首歌，歌名就叫回憶。
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回憶
(郭子究/曲；呂佩琳、陳崑/詞)

春朝一去花亂飛，又是佳節人不歸，
記得當年楊柳青，長征別離時，
連珠淚和鍼黹繡征衣， 繡出同心花一朵，忘了問歸期。

思歸期，憶歸期，往事多少盡在春閨夢裡，
往事多少，往事多少在春閨夢裡，
幾度花飛楊柳青，征人何時歸？

．這是高中兩年，從高二練到高三的合唱曲。我們班是為了參加合唱比賽才組成的班，所以是分成四聲部的男女合班。這在當時的高國中教育體系中，可不是常有的。至少我是在小學之後，第一次又回到男女合班的環境。而且是在青春期！情況如何，可以想像得到吧。呵呵。

宋氏王朝

最近在林博文新書《張學良、宋子文檔案大揭秘》發現，史景遷曾在紐約時報書評版撰文評論席格雷夫《宋氏王朝》。今天試著上紐時書評版查詢，沒想到竟然還找得到，真是太爽了，趕快貼出來跟各位分享（參見前則貼文）。印象中沒記錯的話，這本不知譯自何人、不知出版者為誰的《宋氏王朝》，是我父親不知從哪兒弄來，最後才流到我手上，當時的國民黨統治已漸鬆動，蔣經國在他最後歲月中，竟然也容忍「黨外」人士一再的挑釁和騷動，於是隨著江南的《蔣經國傳》，《宋氏王朝》和《李宗仁回憶錄》也紛紛登台，成為地下流傳的反國民黨、反蔣三大文獻。我當時為了掩人耳目，這三本書都特意做了書套蓋住原封。

史景遷評《宋氏王朝》(原載紐約時報)

THE CLAN THAT CHANGED CHINA
(March 17, 1985)

By JONATHAN SPENCE

THE SOONG DYNASTY By Sterling Seagrave. Illustrated. 532 pp. New York: Harper & Row. $22.50.

No mater whether you love them or hate them, Charlie Soong's six children make good copy. There were three sons and three daughters, and between them they carved out a permanent niche in the steamy politics of the Chinese republic in the years from its founding in 1911 to its fall in 1949. The three sons were educated at universities in the United States, two at Harvard and one at Vanderbilt, and became vastly wealthy. The eldest, T. V. (Tse-ven) Soong (by common practice all three were referred to by the initials of their Chinese given names) became a major figure in Nationalist Chinese, Kuomintang Party politics, serving at intervals as Finance Minister, Foreign Minister and governor of the Central Bank of China; his younger brothers, T. L. (Tse-liang) and T. A. (Tse- an), were powerful as bankers, industrialists and company directors.

Charlie Soong's three daughters, all also American-educated, had even more dramatic fates through their marriages - the eldest, Ai-ling, started out as Sun Yat-sen's secretary and went on to marry H. H. Kung, a wealthy industrialist, Oberlin College and Yale University graduate, and lineal descendant of Confucius; the middle daughter, Ching- ling, married Sun Yat-sen, and after his death in 1925 became an influential exponent of the liberal-radical cause, and eventually a vice chairman of the People's Republic of China; the youngest daughter, May-ling, married Chiang Kai-shek.....(continue)