编者按：在《环球时报英文版》3月30日刊发的第75篇“变局”专栏中，中国人民大学重阳金融研究院执行院长王文表示，当下的西方媒体只是让世界恐惧与猜嫉崛起的中国，却没有深度了解中国的疾苦与艰辛。庆祝建党百年是一次重寻红色基因的契机，也是中国与世界相互理解的历史机遇。下文为专栏的中英文版。
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新疆棉花事件引起世界关注的那几天，我正跟随“红色寻根，见证初心”团在湘赣边界10个县镇调研考察，重走1927年毛泽东领导秋收起义、开辟井冈山革命根据地、建立首个工农兵政权走过的路。一路体会着中共初期的艰辛，一边则感怜西方一些政客、记者的偏见、傲慢甚至是无知。
那些对所谓新疆“种族灭绝”的诬陷以及对中国人权问题的抹黑，除了令所有中国人认清西方伪善与恶意并为之愤怒之外，最终西方不会得到什么实际利益。可惜的是，很少有西方主流媒体人对新疆以及中国当下发展进行深度与客观的报道。
在井冈山，中国革命的摇篮之地，旧书店有一本美国记者埃德加·斯诺1936年深度采访中共的名著《红星照耀中国》。那是1979年版的旧书，当时，这本书已印刷20万册，价格仅1.3元。我花180元买了这本中国家喻户晓的美国记者名著。
我想，当下西方媒体几乎一面倒批判中国时，如果出现一位新的斯诺，从根子里深度考究为什么中共能够走100年，连续执政70多年，还保持着生机活力的话，恐怕再过40年，他的书价值不只增值150倍吧。
如果我是西方记者，会从秋收起义开始挖掘中共发展的早期源泉。1927年9月10日，毛泽东领导这场武装斗争，仅10天就遭遇失败，70%士兵战亡或逃亡。毛泽东被迫放弃进攻城市，改编军队，带着仅有700人向井冈山进发，创建中国第一个农村革命根据地，开辟“以农村包围城市、武装夺取政权”的具有中国特色革命道路……这个转折是更好揭开“历史选择中国共产党”奥秘的密码。
如果我是西方记者，会讲述那些鲜为人知的毛泽东故事。在安源煤矿，身高180厘米的毛泽东曾爬进深达200多米、高仅一米的矿道，与最底层工人促膝长谈；在湘赣边界，毛泽东人生唯一一次差点遇险身亡；在大井读书石上，毛泽东经常坐着看书，总结出“敌进我退，敌驻我扰，敌疲我打，敌退我追” 游击战争作战指导原则……这些细节是更好剖析这名师范生在革命中成长，最终成为伟大领袖的关键。
如果我是西方记者，会向世界介绍那些催人泪下的烈士故事。在铜鼓，6万多人在革命中牺牲，占当年约一半的人口；在卢溪，秋收起义总指挥卢德铭牺牲时仅22岁；在井冈山，另一位开国元勋朱德当时的妻子伍若兰被捕，坚贞不屈，被斩首示众；在茶陵，红军标语博物馆里保存着数千条当年写在墙上的口号里，折射了一批批中国理想主义革命者的呐喊……这些故事是更好理解中共与群众交融关系的逻辑。
在茅坪镇，几百位小学生穿着红军服，喊着一二一的口令，萌萌地、整体列队，瞻仰毛泽东的故居。这很容易令人联想起中国的未来。
当下的西方媒体只是让世界恐惧与猜嫉崛起的中国，却没有深度了解中国的疾苦与艰辛，更没有发现20世纪上半叶数以千万计的中国人为革命理想而牺牲，已凝结成永不磨灭的红色精神，继续鼓舞着中国下一代。中国人的努力，不是为了超过美国，而是为了超越自己。
西方一些人低估中国人内生动力，忽视中国人越压迫越反抗的斗争逻辑，挑衅以生命和流血换来的中国崛起，他们一定会付出沉重的代价。我需要在这篇专栏中善意地提醒美国一些人，连越南、阿富汗、伊拉克都没有占到什么便宜，何况对付更为强大与坚固的中国呢？
2021年是建党100年。中国政府已公布了相关的庆祝方案。那不只是方案，更是一次重寻红色基因的契机，也是中国与世界相互理解的历史机遇。
呼唤红色寻根的新斯诺，不只是期待着一位伟大的国际记者问世，更是通过国际的视野寻根中共的力量，推动理解新时代中国与世界的思想变局。
New Edgar Snow is needed to understand real China
As Western attacks on China over cotton production in the country's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region garnered world's attention, I was doing research in about 10 counties and townships located at the border between Central China's Hunan Province and East China's Jiangxi Province. It's where Mao Zedong led the Autumn Harvest Uprising and established Jinggangshan revolutionary base in October 1927. While empathizing the hardship in the early years of the Communist Party of China (CPC), I also felt sorry for the prejudice, arrogance and ignorance of some Western politicians and reporters.The slanders of so-called "genocide" in Xinjiang and stigmatization over China's human rights affairs won't get the West any benefits. Instead, this has made all Chinese people clearly see through the hypocrisy and viciousness of the West. Sadly, now there are very few in-depth and objective reports by Western mainstream media about Xinjiang and China's current development.In a second-hand bookstore in Jinggangshan, the "cradle of the Chinese revolution," I found a copy of Red Star Over China by American reporter Edgar Snow, who wrote and published the book in 1937 after spending months with the Chinese Red Army in 1936. This copy was printed in 1979 and priced at 1.3 yuan ($0.2). Decades later, I spent 180 yuan ($27.5) on this masterwork of this American reporter who is renowned in China. Nowadays, amid Western media's almost one-sided criticism against China, if some Western reporter could thoroughly examine the reasons why the 100-year-old CPC has been able to stay in power for over 70 consecutive years and still maintain its vitality, I suppose his or her book about the findings would have its value increase no less than 150 times in 40 years. If I were a Western journalist, I would explore the source of CPC's development during its initial stages: from the Autumn Harvest Uprising. On September 9, 1927, Mao led the uprising, which failed within merely 10 days. Mao was forced to cancel the plan to attack the city and commanded the troops to Jinggangshan, and set up the first revolutionary base there. This was the first step of Chinese revolutionary road of encircling the urban areas from the rural areas. This turning point can better uncover the secret code of "history chooses the CPC."If I were a Western journalist, I would tell little-known stories of Mao. At the Anyuan coal mine, Mao, who was 180cm tall, climbed down into a mine tunnel which was over 200 meters deep and only one meter in height. There, he had a long conversation with the lowest-level workers. Sitting on the "reading stones" in the village of Dajing, Mao often read books and concluded the basic tactics for guerrilla warfare as follows: "The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue." These details are pivotal to a better understanding of the great leader.If I were a Western journalist, I would introduce the tear-jerking stories of martyrs to the world. In a county named Tonggu, Jiangxi Province, more than 60,000 people died during the revolution, accounting for about half of the county's population then. Lu Deming, the chief commander of the Autumn Harvest Uprising, sacrificed his life at the age of 22. These stories can help the international community better comprehend the relationship between the CPC and the Chinese people.I saw hundreds of pupils visit Mao's former residence in Maoping township of Zigui county, Central China's Hubei Province, during my research trip. It makes me think about China's future.The current Western media only makes the world fear and suspect a rising China. It fails to understand the depth of China's hardships and difficulties. Nor does it address the fact that tens of millions of Chinese lost their lives on the path to revolutionary ideals in the first half of the 20th century. This was crystallized into an indelible Red spirit that continues to inspire China's next generation. The Chinese are working hard not to surpass the US, but to surpass themselves.Some in the West underestimate the internal drive of the Chinese people. They ignore the Chinese's logic of struggle: the more the Chinese people are oppressed, the more they will resist. China's rise is the result of our people's sacrifices. Those who provoke China will surely pay a heavy price. In this column, I need to kindly remind some people in the US that: The US did not gain an advantage in Vietnam or Afghanistan or Iraq, how can it deal with China which is much stronger and firmer?The year 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC. The Chinese government has already announced various programs to celebrate it. These programs give an opportunity to rediscover the red genes of the CPC, as well as a historical opportunity for China and the world to understand each other better.Calling for the appearance of the new Edgar Snow is not just looking forward to the arrival of another great international journalist. It is a chance to trace the origin of CPC's strength through an international perspective. It can promote the understanding of the ideological changes in the new era both in China and the world.(The author is professor and executive dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China.)
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