罗定是广东省历史上一个有名的干旱山区县。解放前,地主、资本家的盘剥和旱涝灾害,使广大农民陷于水深火热之中。这是1970年代大陆小学语文课本上的一段话,课文标题叫《罗定山河披新装》。这虽然是四十年前的课文,但直到今天,其中的观点在某种程度仍然代表着主流对一段历史的认识。这段历史除了地主、资本家,还有军阀、列强、晚清政府、国民党、国民政府、蒋介石、宋美龄,等等。因为种种原因,很长一段时间以来,这些都是以负面形象出现在我们面前,像宋美龄,在传统的 Luoding is a well-known arid mountain county in the history of Guangdong Province. Before the liberation, the exploitation by landlords and capitalists and droughts and floods caused the vast numbers of peasants to fall into seething conditions. This is a passage on the Chinese textbooks for elementary schools in the 1970s. The title of the text is called “Luoding Mountain Phi New Clothes.” Although this text was 40 years ago, the viewpoints up to this day still represent, to some extent, the mainstream’s understanding of a certain period of history. In addition to the landowners, capitalists, warlords, strong powers, the government of the late Qing dynasty, the Kuomintang, the National Government, Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Mei-ling and so on. For a variety of reasons, for a long time now, these have all appeared in front of us as negative images, like Soong Mei-ling, in the traditional