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Our Phrase of the Week<\/a> is: Lived in frustration, and died in vain <\/em>(\u6d3b\u5f97\u618b\u5c48\uff0c\u6b7b\u5f97\u7a9d\u56ca hu\u00f3 de bi\u0113q\u016b, s\u01d0 de w\u014dnang).<\/p>\n The death of former Chinese premier L\u01d0 K\u00e8qi\u00e1ng \u674e\u514b\u5f3a has dominated discussions on the internet in China since it was revealed he had suddenly died of a heart attack on October 27 in Shanghai.<\/p>\n China\u2019s powerful censors have tightly controlled all commentary on his death inside the country. Comments on social media have been restricted to \u201crest in peace\u201d (\u5b89\u606f\u5427 \u0101nx\u00ed ba) and other similar formulaic expressions. The official announcement<\/a> in the People’s Daily is less than 100 characters in length.<\/p>\n Outside of China, discussions on Twitter in Chinese and Chinese-language media outlets have focused on how Li’s departure represents an end to the \u201cgolden years\u201d of China’s economic growth.<\/p>\n An article in the New York Times<\/a> by Yu\u00e1n L\u00ec \u8881\u8389 captures the sentiment well:<\/p>\n Among many Chinese, Li Keqiang’s death has stirred nostalgia for the era he represented: An era of better economic prospects and more openness to private enterprise.<\/p>\n \u5728\u8bb8\u591a\u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba\u5f53\u4e2d\uff0c\u674e\u514b\u5f3a\u7684\u53bb\u4e16\u6fc0\u8d77\u4e86\u5bf9\u4ed6\u6240\u4ee3\u8868\u7684\u90a3\u4e2a\u65f6\u4ee3\u7684\u6000\u5ff5\uff1a\u90a3\u662f\u4e00\u4e2a\u7ecf\u6d4e\u524d\u666f\u66f4\u597d\u3001\u5bf9\u79c1\u8425\u4f01\u4e1a\u66f4\u5f00\u660e\u7684\u65f6\u4ee3\u3002<\/em><\/p>\n Z\u00e0i x\u01d4du\u014d zh\u014dnggu\u00f3r\u00e9n d\u0101ngzh\u014dng, l\u01d0k\u00e8qi\u00e1ng de q\u00f9sh\u00ec j\u012bq\u01d0le du\u00ec t\u0101su\u01d2 d\u00e0ibi\u01ceo de n\u00e0ge sh\u00edd\u00e0i de hu\u00e1ini\u00e0n: N\u00e0 sh\u00ec y\u00edg\u00e8 j\u012bngj\u00ec qi\u00e1nj\u01d0ng g\u00e8ng h\u01ceo, du\u00ec s\u012by\u00edng q\u01d0y\u00e8 g\u00e8ng k\u0101im\u00edng de sh\u00edd\u00e0i.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n She concludes with a comment shared by a Chinese journalist:<\/p>\n \u201cIn life he was miserable, in death he was wronged,\u201d a Chinese journalist told me. \u201cAren’t we all like that?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c\u6d3b\u5f97\u90c1\u95f7\uff0c\u6b7b\u5f97\u618b\u5c48\uff0c\u201d\u4e00\u4f4d\u4e2d\u56fd\u8bb0\u8005\u544a\u8bc9\u6211\u3002\u201c\u6211\u4eec\u4e0d\u90fd\u8fd9\u6837\u5417\uff1f\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHu\u00f3 de y\u00f9m\u00e8n, s\u01d0 de bi\u0113q\u016b,\u201d y\u012b w\u00e8i zh\u014dnggu\u00f3 j\u00eczh\u011b g\u00e0os\u00f9 w\u01d2. \u201cW\u01d2men b\u00f9 d\u014du zh\u00e8y\u00e0ng ma?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n And with that, we have our Phrase of the Week!<\/p>\n In life he was miserable, in death he was wronged<\/em> is adapted from a post widely circulated on Twitter<\/a> in the last week by W\u00fa Gu\u00f3gu\u0101ng \u5434\u56fd\u5149, a senior research scholar at Stanford University and well known for his work on Chinese politics and current affairs.<\/p>\n The full post is:<\/p>\n In a decade of prudence, he kept himself upright, but lived in frustration; Title: Resigned in powerlessness<\/p>\n \u8d54\u5341\u5e74\u5c0f\u5fc3\uff0c\u867d\u6d01\u8eab\u81ea\u597d\uff0c\u4f46\u6d3b\u5f97\u618b\u5c48\uff1b \u6a2a\u6279\uff1a\u65e0\u80fd\u4e3a\u529b<\/em><\/p>\n P\u00e9i sh\u00ed ni\u00e1n xi\u01ceox\u012bn, su\u012b ji\u00e9sh\u0113n z\u00ech\u00e0o, d\u00e0n hu\u00f3 d\u00e9 bi\u0113 q\u016b; H\u00e9ngp\u012b: W\u00fan\u00e9n gw\u00e9il\u00ec<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is an \u201celegiac couplet\u201d (\u633d\u8054 w\u01cenli\u00e1n), a poetic form consisting of two lines. It’s thought to be one of the oldest forms of poetry. Originally used for funeral songs by the ancient Greeks, the elegiac couplet is also commonly used in English, Chinese, and other languages. In Chinese, the couplet is often used to mark someone’s death.<\/p>\n The line \u201cIn death he was wronged\u201d is drawn from a famous line by M\u00e1o Z\u00e9d\u014dng \u6bdb\u6cfd\u4e1c:<\/p>\n A life of greatness that ends in a glorious death<\/p>\n \u751f\u5f97\u4f1f\u5927\uff0c\u6b7b\u5f97\u5149\u8363<\/em><\/p>\n Sh\u0113ng de w\u011bid\u00e0, s\u01d0 de gu\u0101ngr\u00f3ng<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n He wrote it on March 26, 1947, in tribute to the Communist Party martyr Li\u00fa H\u00fal\u00e1n \u5218\u80e1\u5170.<\/p>\n Liu Hulan was a young female spy during the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. She joined the Communist Party after defecting from the Nationalists in 1946.<\/p>\n On January 12, 1947, the Kuomintang army invaded her village. Soldiers rounded up several reputed Communist Party members, including 14-year-old Liu Hulan, and butchered them in the village square. Before Liu was killed, she was given one final chance to renounce her allegiance to the Communist Party. She refused and was beheaded.<\/p>\n Three months later, when Mao visited her village on a tour of Shaanxi Province, he was moved by the story of her bravery, and so inscribed \u201cA life of greatness that ends in a glorious death\u201d in her memory.<\/p>\n Wu Guoguang’s elegiac couplet is a bitter play on words, drawing from the greatness of Liu Hulan’s martyrdom, and giving us our fascinating but tragic phrase of the week in memory of China’s late premier, which we translate as the following eight-character phrase:<\/p>\n Lived in frustration, and died in vain.<\/p>\n \u6d3b\u5f97\u618b\u5c48\uff0c\u6b7b\u5f97\u7a9d\u56ca\u3002<\/em><\/p>\n Hu\u00f3 de bi\u0113q\u016b, s\u01d0 de w\u014dnang.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n With thanks to Geremie R. Barm\u00e9, editor of China Heritage<\/a>, who recommended this week’s Phrase of the Week.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new phrase describes the sentiment in China toward the sudden death of Li Keqiang. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19995,"featured_media":289031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12902],"tags":[14425,18056,15558,21089,13929,12939,21616,21615,18681],"column":[18680],"class":[],"coauthors":[18616],"acf":[],"la_post_categories":{"politics-and-current-affairs":"Politics & Current Affairs"},"la_post_tags":{"access":"Access","chinese-communist-party-ccp":"Chinese Communist Party (CCP)","chinese-leadership":"Chinese leadership","chinese-politics":"Chinese politics","death":"death","li-keqiang":"Li Keqiang","obituary":"obituary","party-leadership":"party leadership","phrase-of-the-week":"Phrase of the Week"},"content_writeup":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s what else you need to know about China today:<\/p>\n China urged Myanmar to help maintain stability along their shared border<\/strong> after a surge of fighting<\/a> in Myanmar between military junta forces and insurgents rocked the region<\/a> last week. Clashes have erupted along the 2,000-kilometer (1243-mile) border along China\u2019s Yunnan Province, with local militias reportedly seizing military posts and key roads<\/a> leading to China.<\/p>\n \u201cChina is closely following the conflict in northern Myanmar. We urge parties to immediately stop the fighting, settle differences peacefully through dialogue and consultation, avoid escalation of the situation and take effective measures to ensure security and stability at the China-Myanmar border,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson W\u0101ng W\u00e9nb\u012bn \u6c6a\u6587\u658c said<\/a> on November 2.<\/p>\n Blizzards and sleet storms have killed at least eight people and left one missing as <\/strong>a wave of unseasonably cold weather<\/a> hits northeast China. Temperatures are forecasted to drop to 0\u00b0C<\/a> (-32\u00b0F) overnight in Beijing, while heavy snowfall and sleets are expected to hit large swaths of the north.<\/p>\n In the country’s northernmost province of Heilongjiang, some areas were predicted to receive<\/a> accumulative precipitation exceeding 40 mm. Harbin, the province\u2019s capital city, suspended passenger coach services, canceled flights, and halted all classes as of this morning.<\/p>\n China’s economy tsar H\u00e9 L\u00ecf\u0113ng<\/strong> \u4f55\u7acb\u5cf0 has been appointed as head of office of Central Financial Commission (CFC), central bank publication Financial News reported<\/a> today. He is now the chief of two of the Communist Party\u2019s top financial sector policy making bodies following his appointment as Party chief <\/a>of a separate Central Financial Work Commission (CFWC), cementing his leadership<\/a> and strengthening Party control over China’s financial system.<\/p>\n Today, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced<\/a> that He will visit the U.S. from November 8\u201312.<\/p>\n Former Chinese premier L\u01d0 K\u00e8qi\u00e1ng \u674e\u514b\u5f3a was cremated on November 3<\/strong> following his death late last month. The ceremony for Li, who passed away from a heart attack<\/a> at 68, was held at<\/a> the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing, with X\u00ed J\u00ecnp\u00edng \u4e60\u8fd1\u5e73 and other top officials present to pay their final respects. National flags were lowered to half-mast in Tiananmen Square in Beijing and other places around the country, drawing crowds of mourners at various sites<\/a> marking his legacy and an outpouring of grief<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n China pledged to expand market access and boost imports <\/strong>during a keynote speech<\/a> yesterday by Chinese premier L\u01d0 Qi\u00e1ng \u674e\u5f3a at the sixth China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai. “No matter how the world changes, China’s pace of opening up will never stall, and its determination to share development opportunities with the world will never change,” Li said<\/a>.<\/p>\n Qatar agreed to supply Chinese state-owned petrol giant Sinopec<\/strong> with liquefied natural gas (LNG) for 27 years, the Gulf emirate\u2019s state-owned energy company QatarEnergy announced<\/a> at the CIIE on November 4. It is the second such agreement<\/a> signed with Sinopec, as China seeks to bolster its energy security.<\/p>\n Beijing has banned Communist Party officials from investing their savings into domestic Chinese private equity funds<\/strong>, Chinese state media reported<\/a>. It\u2019s the latest move by the party-state in its sweeping anti-corruption crackdown among the ranks of its government and its financial sector.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Zh\u0101ng H\u00f3ngl\u00ec \u5f20\u7ea2\u529b, former vice president of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC), has been placed under investigation<\/a> for suspected severe violations of law and Communist Party discipline \u2014 a euphemism for corruption, China\u2019s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said on November 4.<\/p>\n U.S. consultancy Gallup will close all three of its offices in China<\/strong>, becoming the latest overseas firm to pull out of the country amid geopolitical tensions and Beijing\u2019s growing scrutiny over foreign entities operating within its borders. \u201cRegrettably, Gallup has made the decision to close its operations in China,\u201d the Washington-based company said in a notice seen by the Financial Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ant Group won government approval to roll out AI-powered services to the public<\/strong>. The Alibaba fintech affiliate has gotten the green light<\/a> to roll out products powered by its large language model Bailing, in the race to create a domestic generative AI-powered chatbot to rival OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT.<\/p>\n Chinese state media: <\/strong>Xinhua News Agency leads with a story on Xi meeting South African Vice President Paul Mashatile<\/a> of South Africa, and the top photo carousel highlights Xi\u2019s meetings in the last two days with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese<\/a>, Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz<\/a>, and Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabi\u0107<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe context<\/h3>\n
What it means<\/h3>\n
\nBeing only one step away, he retreated with dignity, yet died in vain.<\/p>\n
\n\u8ddd\u4e00\u6b65\u4e4b\u9065\uff0c\u5374\u6025\u6d41\u52c7\u9000\uff0c\u7adf\u6b7b\u5f97\u7a9d\u56ca\u3002<\/em><\/p>\n
\nJ\u00f9 y\u012bb\u00f9 zh\u012b y\u00e1o, qu\u00e8 j\u00edli\u00fa y\u01d2ngtu\u00ec, j\u00ecng s\u01d0 de w\u014dn\u00e1ng. <\/em><\/p>\n
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