Turning on the radio, an overseas Chinese novelist, famous in the West, was talking confidently about the benefits of re-education through labor. It was like a return to the climate of the West in the 1960s and as though nothing had changed in Eastern Europe.
扭開收音機，一位在西方頗負盛名的資深華裔女作家，正侃侃談起下放勞改、農村插隊的光榮偉大，讓人乍聽像是回到了六○年代的西方，而非身在經過東歐巨變的九○年代。