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魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1041-W679
Release
Date: August 26, 2017
发布日：2017年8月26日
Topic:
The Details of the Cultural Revolution Exhibition in the US Congress in July
2017
标题：有关2017年7月在美国国会举办的第三届“人权无国界展”中纪念中国的文化大革命五十一周年的展览细节
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The
Details of the Cultural Revolution Exhibition in the US Congress in July 2017
On
July 27 and 28, 2017, the third "Human Rights Without Borders"
exhibition and the third ceremony awarding the "Human Rights and Freedom
Defender" Prize of the Wei Jingsheng Foundation was held in the foyer of
Rayburn House Office Building of the US Congress.
These
events are co-sponsored by:
The
Wei Jingsheng Foundation
The
European Parliament Liaison Office with the US Congress
Freedom
House
Reporters
Without Borders
Tianwen
United Institute
IFCSS
(Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, USA)
Chinese
European Post
The
main theme of this year's exhibition is in observance of the 50th year
anniversary of the Cultural Revolution in China, which was a human rights
catastrophe. It was cosponsored by
the Tianwen United Institute and the Wei Jingsheng Foundation.
The
following is the preface and forward of this exhibition, while all the 66 pages
of this exhibition is available as a pdf file at:
http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2017/CulturalRevolution50exhibition1707inUScongress.pdf
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What
the Cultural Revolution in China Really Was
--
Preface of the Cultural Revolution Reflection Photo Exhibition,
the
Theme of the Third "Human Rights Without Borders" Exhibition in the
US Congress
July
27 & 28, 2017
The
Cultural Revolution Reflection Photo Exhibition, organized by the Tianwen United
Institute and the Wei Jingsheng Foundation, is the main theme of the 3rd
"Human Rights Without Borders" Exhibition. It is held in the foyer of the Rayburn House Office Building
of the US Congress on July 27th & 28th of 2017. The purpose of this exhibition is to show people the brutal
influence on several generations of Chinese due to this political movement by
the Communist regime exploiting people's human rights. The influence was profound and brought disaster
to the world as well.
The
photo exhibition contains nearly 400 historical pictures reproducing in a
panorama the historical process of the Cultural Revolution, with commentaries
in both English and Chinese.
Through this exhibition, we hope the elders will re-understand and
thoroughly reflect on that human catastrophe, while the younger people will
learn what had happened in China 50 years ago and why it was such an historical
tragedy. Thus it will give a
special warning with historical perspective to make sure that this kind of
tragedy will not be repeated.
This
photo exhibition was jointly planned by Zhang Boshu, Rong Wei, and Li
Weidong. Li Weidong wrote the
commentaries and reproduced the photos.
Wei Jingsheng and Li Weidong wrote the preface.
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Foreword:
What the Cultural Revolution in China Really Was
The
Cultural Revolution (WenGe) is the abbreviation of the Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution, which is generally considered to be from 1966 to the end
of 1976. Mao Zedong and his clique
launched the so-called Cultural Revolution with an original intention and
excuse as to continue the May 4 Movement of 1919 in an effort to reach the goal
of eradicating traditional Chinese culture and importing the advanced culture
of the West. As such it was
unanimously agreed to within the Communist Party in China from the beginning,
and approved by the votes of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
Its
inner purposes were two. One was
the struggle of choosing the path, as Mao Zedong believed that the Communist
Party at that time was violating the Marxist approach to the communist utopia,
because it was moving towards the market economy of Capitalism. The second was the seizure of power; in
order to reverse the direction of the capitalists, Mao had to beat down those
people in power who wanted the capitalist way. He had to seize the power from the then bureaucratic class
in China.
For
these purposes, Mao Zedong used the faith that the Chinese Communists created
for him like a god, to convince the people to overthrow the bureaucratic
domination, and to devise a so-called proletarian leadership structure that
obeyed his will in accordance with his imagination in carrying out the Marxist
utopia. The result was a complete
failure. The Cultural Revolution
brought catastrophe to China, with countless lives lost, and resulted in
stagnation and regression economically, socially and culturally in China.
This
movement indeed revolutionized the Chinese traditional culture, yet without the
introduction of the Western advanced culture. Mao Zedong was successful only in creating the dictatorship
as defined by Karl Marx, a barbaric culture. The movement did not have any "big democracy" as
it claimed. Instead the result was
the struggle between the different sects of the rebellion according to Mao's
instruction, which were similar to religious sects. Those who did not pursue Mao Zedong's teachings were
brutally struck down, even slaughtered.
This
exhibition will follow the context of "Qin Shi Huang plus Marx" as summarized
by Mao himself, to show the historical trajectory of the start, development,
and finally the forceful end of the Cultural Revolution.
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Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A1041-W679
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1041-W679
Release
Date: August 26, 2017
发布日：2017年8月26日
Topic:
The Details of the Cultural Revolution Exhibition in the US Congress in July
2017
标题：有关2017年7月在美国国会举办的第三届“人权无国界展”中纪念中国的文化大革命五十一周年的展览细节
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有关2017年7月在美国国会举办的第三届“人权无国界展”中纪念中国的文化大革命五十一周年的展览细节
2017年7月27日及28日，第三届“人权无国界展”暨第三届“人权自由卫士奖”颁奖典礼在美国国会众议院雷伯恩办公大楼的大堂（即正门休息大厅，在面对Independence大道安检区的楼上）举行。
这些活动由魏京生基金会主办，由欧洲议会驻美国国会办公室、自由之家、记者无疆界、天问联合学会、全美学自联（全美中国学生学者自治联合会），及欧华导报联合举办。
今年展览的主题是纪念中国的文化大革命发生五十一周年。中国的文革是一场祸及全国的人权灾难。本次展览由天问联合学会及魏京生基金会共同主办。所有的66块展板皆可在以下链接中看到：
http://www.weijingsheng.org/interviews/interviews2017/CulturalRevolution50exhibition1707inUScongress.pdf
以下为展览的前言与序言部分。
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告诉你一个真实的文革 -- 文革反思图片美国国会展前言
文革反思图片展，由天问联合学会与魏京生基金会联合主办，2017年7月27日与28日在美国国会众议院雷伯恩办公大楼的大堂展出，是第三届“人权无国界”展的主题展览。其目的是通过向人们展示被剥夺了基本人权情况下、疯狂的中共政治运动对几代人的残酷影响，及对全世界各国带来的灾难。
图片展以近400幅历史图片全景式再现文革的历史过程，并用中英文对照的解说词进行反思式解说，力求年长者能通过展览重新认识和彻底反思那场人间浩劫，力求年轻人能够了解五十年前的中国到底发生了什么和为什么会发生那样的历史悲剧，以给今日的中国一个特别的历史视角的警示，使这样的历史悲剧不再重演。
图片展由张博树、荣伟、李伟东联合总策划，由李伟东撰写解说词和图片制作。魏京生、李伟东撰写序言。
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告诉你一个真实的文革（序言）
文革是无产阶级文化大革命的简称，一般认为是从1966年开始，到1976年结束。毛泽东和他的集团发动所谓的文化大革命，其初衷和借口，是继续1919年五四运动铲除传统文化，移植西方先进文化的目标。因此一开始就得到了党内一致的同意，并被中央委员会举手通过。
其内在的目的有两个。一个是路线斗争，毛泽东认为当时的共产党违背了马克思主义走向共产主义乌托邦的道路，正在走向资本主义的市场经济。第二个是夺权斗争，为了扭转走资本主义道路的方向，必须打倒走资本主义道路的当权派，也就是从当时的官僚阶层手里夺取权力。
为这些目的，他利用共产党自己制造的神一样的信仰，发动人民推翻了官僚们的统治权，按照他的想象设计了一个听从他的意志的所谓无产阶级的领导结构，来推行马克思主义的乌托邦。结果是彻底的失败，并给中国带来一场浩劫，付出了无数生命的代价，造成经济、社会、文化各方面的停滞和倒退。
这场运动革了中国传统文化的命，但并没有引进西方先进文化。毛泽东成功地创造了马克思所定义的专政文化，一种野蛮的文化。这场运动也没有什么大民主，而是奉旨造反的不同宗派之间的斗争，类似于各宗教的教派之争。不奉行毛泽东教义的人，会遭到残酷的打击，以至于屠杀。
本展览将沿着毛泽东自己总结的“秦始皇加马克思”的脉络，展示文革发生、发展以至最后被迫终结的历史轨迹。
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