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This is sorta fun. I received a review of 1969 that was published in a Chinese newspaper.  The review was in Chinese, so I ran it through the Google translator.  The results of the computerized translation were predictably erratic, but for kicks I wanted to paste an excerpt here.  Although the precise wording of the review is undoubtedly lost in translation, the piece seems to cover many of the main points of the book as it relates our current situation to what happened forty years ago.  Thanks to the author, Berlin Fang, for reviewing the book and taking the time to send me what he wrote.

- Rob  

This is an unusual year, economic depression, the collapse of many banks, the auto industry recession, “moon walk” the singer Michael Jackson has died, “America’s most trusted” anchor Cronkite’s dead, “教书匠“Frank McCourt has been turned into ashes. I turn on the TV, it seems there are bad news. It seems there is a cyclical history, four decades ago and today is quite similar to the United States, the United States inside stuck in the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement in full swing, because of the assassination of Martin Luther King, has been a certain setback. That year the United States with a lot of pent-up emotions of society. Also occurred in the year a lot of things have been written on behalf of the United States dedicated to the sixties罗伯柯克writer Patrick (R obK irkpatrick) specifically written a book describing the United States during the grand finale of an extraordinary one extraordinary years, the title is called “1969.”午夜牛郎” the release. Terms of its propaganda is: “on”午夜牛郎“all the rumors are true.” “Playboy” and “loft” playing the “private part World War II,” with the pornography and exposure to the mainstream media. At that time, the daughter of Vice President艾格纽, there are several members of Congress because of the children of drug abuse, have been expelled from school and have been arrested by the police, shows the madness of an era.尸骨未寒encountered a half of these students is not a small problem for the race to determine whether the contradictions and class conflicts, teacher-student contradiction, or is it simply the growth of闲得发慌trouble? It is hard to say, to do an event with a different definition and interpretation, so the situation in order to avoid the expansion of schools to deal with more caution.马丁佩雷斯after witnessing the scene at the time said, “I think the problem of civilization. I think, how we can regain our past to see the teachers, the self-issued the kind of respect? … … These students occupied the administration building of the act, let me overnight change their political stance, the left turn from a right-wing. ”

- Berlin Fang