大字报

One of the additions to the many posters up at Peking University was this slogan from the American Revolution written on a bedsheet.

在北京大学众多的大字报中，有一张写著美国革命时的一句口号：「不自由，毋宁死！

Whoever causes a person's injury, disability or death through 'beating, smashing and looting' and whoever destroys or forcibly takes articles of ppublic or private property, whoever, by violence or other methods, including the use of 'big character posters' and 'small character posters', publicly insults another person or fabricates facts to defame him, if the circumstances are serious, whoever, for the purpose of counterrevolution, incites the masses to resist or sabotage the implementation of the state's laws or decrees or propagandizes for and incites the overthrow of the political power of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the socialist system through counterrevolutionary slogans, leaflets or by other means and commits a crime in violation of the Criminal Law shall be investigated for legal responsibility according to law.

"严禁聚众'打砸抢'。因'打砸抢'致人伤残、死亡的"，"毁坏或者抢走公私财物的"；"以暴力或者其他方法，包括用'大字报'、'小字报'，公然侮辱他人或者捏造事实诽谤他人，情节严重的"；"以反革命为目的"，"煽动群众抗拒、破坏国家法律、法令实施的"，"以反革命标语、传单或者其他方法宣传煽动推翻无产阶级专政的政权和社会主义制度的"，都是触犯刑律的犯罪行为，都要依法追究法律责任。

The Criminal Law stipulates that whoever disturbs public order so seriously that "work, production, business, education or scientific research cannot be conducted and the state and society suffer serious losses"; whoever assembles a crowd to disturb "order at stations, wharves, civil airports, market places, public parks, theatres, cinemas, exhibition halls, sports grounds or other public Places", or assembles a crowd to block traffic or undermine traffic order or resist "public security administration personnel of the state" or obstruct them "from carrying out their duties according to law, if the circumstances are serious";"whoever causes a person's injury, disability or death through 'beating, smashing and looting'" and whoever destroys or forcibly takes "articles of ppublic or private property";"whoever, by violence or other methods, including the use of 'big character posters' and 'small character posters'","publicly insults another person or fabricates facts to defame him, if the circumstances are serious";"whoever, for the purpose of counterrevolution," incites "the masses to resist or sabotage the implementation of the state's laws or decrees" or propagandizes for and incites "the overthrow of the political power of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the socialist system through counterrevolutionary slogans, leaflets or by other means" and commits a crime in violation of the Criminal Law shall be investigated for legal responsibility according to law.

因'打砸抢'致人伤残、死亡的"，"毁坏或者抢走公私财物的"；"以暴力或者其他方法，包括用'大字报'、'小字报'，公然侮辱他人或者捏造事实诽谤他人，情节严重的"；"以反革命为目的"，"煽动群众抗拒、破坏国家法律、法令实施的"，"以反革命标语、传单或者其他方法宣传煽动推翻无产阶级专政的政权和社会主义制度的，都是触犯刑律的犯罪行为，都要依法追究法律责任。

I had to look over to see if she was reading from a cue card.

这使得我必须仔细检查她是否在阅读大字报。

No mention is made, for example, of a vital part of the background to the party meetings, Democracy Wall—a 200-metre-long brick structure in front of a bus depot west of Tiananmen Square. For a remarkable four months in the winter of 1978-79, until Deng decided to shut it down and jail some of its activists, citizens plastered the wall with posters calling for freedom and democracy.

例如，已经无人提及那次共党会议中一个至关重要的情况，那就是民主墙—一个位于天安门广场西侧汽车站前方，长达200米的砖体结构。1978年至 1979冬季，在这个不同寻常的四个月里，民众在该墙上贴满了呼吁自由和民主的大字报，直到邓小平决定封闭该墙并拘押了一些积极分子为止。

But fifty day in the past, some leaders from The Center to Region, practiced on the contrary, supported retroactive bourgeois, Implemented dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, repressed the Cultural Revolution movement of the proletarian, confused right and wrong, suppressed revolution, pressed different utterance, carried out White Terror, thanked complacency, and so that add the portliness of bourgeois and reduce the backbone of proletarian, which are malevolence.

请同志们重读一遍这张大字报和这个评论。可是在五十多天里。从中央到地方的某些领导同志，却反其道而行之。站在*的资产阶级立场上，实行资产阶级专政，将无产阶级轰轰烈烈的文化大革命运动打下去，颠倒是非，混淆黑白，围剿革命派，压制不同意见，实行白色恐怖，自以为得意，长资产阶级的威风，灭无产阶级的志气，又何其狠毒也。

Last week, Mr. Persky, 48, stood on Park Avenue, handing out résumés to passers-by and wearing a sandwich board that said,"Experienced M.I.T. Grad for Hire."

上周，48岁的伯斯基先生站在派克大街上，向过路行人发送简历，并且，他还背着一个三明治的大字报，上面写着"麻省理工学院毕业，经验丰富。"

Following is an excerpt from that Marxist big character poster, the wording of which incorporated a unique Western flavor into a stridency matching the most radical Chinese activists

下面是这张御批马列大字报的抄件，其措辞比聂元梓们的更带杀气，又添了几分西方人少见的媚气

In the second part, the author generalizes the common form of the I3CP and gives introduction to its content.

第二部分，归纳了大字报的各种常见形式，介绍了大字报的主要内容。

That was a brief political thaw in the late nineteen-seventies, when, on a wall at a busy intersection in the heart of Beijing, people put up posters, essays, poems, and mimeographed articles, attracting huge crowds who read and discussed what had been posted. In late 1979, the government cracked down, and cleaned it up.

那是上世纪七十年代末短暂的解冻期，当时，在北京市区中心的西单路口，人们用大字报的形式在墙上张贴了各种油印的政论、海报、散文、诗，这些大字报吸引了无数人的目光和讨论，直到1979年末当局出来整肃和清除了西单民主墙。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。