Tian Changlin took a photo in the early days of his stay in the United States.
Note: Pei Gaocai, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, wrote "The Biography of Tian Changlin", which is the first complete biography of Tian Changlin's legendary life. Academician Chen Jiaer, a famous educator and scientist, and Mr. Tian Changzhuo, a 96-year-old Chinese scientist, wrote the preface. After being published by the Central China Normal University Press, Wuhan Federation of Social Sciences, Huangpi District and Central China Normal University successfully held a new book sharing meeting in Wuhan Huangpi District Experimental Primary SchoolTian Changzhuo, Du Jincheng, well-known Chinese scientists in the United States, Professor Fan Xing, a famous literary critic of Wuhan University, Chen Ying, vice chairman of Wuhan Federation of Social Sciences, Liu Jianchao, deputy editor-in-chief of Central China Normal University Press, and other guests at home and abroad attended and interacted with teachers, students and readers. Reading requirements, today I will share a small section of "Maintaining Dignity" in "The Biography of Tian Changlin".
Pei Gaocai: The Biography of Tian Changlin, Central China Normal University Press, 202310；isbn978-7-5769-0185-6；The price is 62 yuan.
Tian Changlin's biography" in the table of contents "Maintaining Dignity".
In the fall of 1956, 21-year-old Tian Changlin used the $300 borrowed by his mother to buy the cheapest ticket and flew to Seattle alone. He was blown away when he arrived in a coach from the University of Louisville in the southern United States to pursue his master's degree.
Tian Changlin never expected that an American society that claims to be democratic and free is full of racial discrimination, and there is a clear distinction between whites and people of color who even drink water and take the bus. He couldn't figure out which toilet he was going to
Tian Changlin inscribed Pei Gaocai, he was wearing a doctor's uniform**.
Moreover, at the beginning of his master's degree, a white professor who wore "colored glasses" to see people never directly called him by his Chinese or English name, but contemptuously called him "Chinese Yankee".
At first, Tian Changlin thought it was a mantra for a white professor to call people. Soon, when he learned from his classmates that "Chinese Yankee" was an insulting term with racial discrimination, he felt that the personality of Chinese people could not be discriminated against, so he resolutely walked into the white professor's office and solemnly declared:
"Professor, I solemnly tell you today, please don't call me 'Chinese Yankee' again!”
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When the white professor saw that it was a small Chinese student, he replied dismissively, "Haven't I called you that all these months?"Why, are you still not satisfied?”
Tian Changlin said solemnly: "In the past, I didn't know that such a term was used to insult the Chinese!"Therefore, I have come to solemnly reiterate: please respect yourself, and never call me that again!”
The professor pretended to ask, "Oh, what do you want me to call you?"”
The people's ** Zai Tian Changlin participated in the conference of the Chinese Academy of Science and Industry and the Chinese Academy of Science and Industry and said: My greatest wish is how to make a contribution to my motherland.
Tian Changlin said sonorously: "You can call me Tien, or Changlin or C·L, you can do it."Otherwise, don't call me better!"Say goodbye and leave.
The white professor never expected that he would meet a rare brave man!After that, I didn't find this professor calling "Chinese Yankee" again!
From left: Academician Chen Jiaer and Pei Gaocai gathered at the Wuhan Optics Valley Tian Changlin International Forum.
Academician Chen Jiaer's comment on the back cover of Pei Gaocai's new book "The Biography of Tian Changlin".
Commentary: Professor Chen Jiaer, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former president of Peking UniversityMr. Tian Changlin's classmate of Shanghai Weiyu Middle School, the two wereThey are the presidents of famous universities in China and the United States, and they are both academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and they have been friends for half a century. Academician Chen is 89 years oldIn the preface published by the magazine "Book House", it is written:
The students of Weiyu Middle School in the Biography of Tian Changlin took a group photo in 1948. In the first three rows of the picture, the ninth from the right is Chen Jiaer, and the eleventh is provided by Tian Changlin and Chen Jiaer.
The above paragraph is a detail revealed in Pei Gaocai's new book "The Biography of Tian Changlin" (Central China Normal University Press, 2023 edition). Reading this, it reminds me of "Qingqing Zijin, leisurely my heart" in the "Book of Songs".
From left, Pei Gaocai and Liu Wenhua and Wu Xiao, editors-in-chief of Shuwu Magazine, in Changsha.
Throughout the ages, social changes and vicissitudes of life, no matter how Chinese scholars go to the top, even if they are successful in foreign lands, they can maintain their national personality and serve the motherland with a pure heart.
Academician Tian Changlin, who has become a world-renowned contemporary Chinese educator, scientist and social activist from a poor international student, is one such outstanding person.