跟美国人谈中国的“文化大革命”,我和许多人一样,喜欢拿当年文艺团体停业、人员下放与麦卡锡主义时期美国影剧界人士上黑名单、失业改行相比,直到某天有位美国朋友——他小时在中国读书,北京话讲得够流利,文革语言朗朗上口,忽然颇为天真地对我说:“你可曾想过?文化革命和麦卡锡主义委实大有可比。”他顿了一顿又说:“可惜你对麦卡锡主义 Speaking with Americans about China’s “Cultural Revolution,” like many others, I like to take the time when the arts and cultural groups are closed down and personnel are dispatched compared with the black list and the unemployment of the U.S. film industry during the McCarthyism until one day a U.S. Friends - he was studying in China for an hour, his speech was fluent in Beijing, and the language of the Cultural Revolution was catchy. Suddenly he said to me naively: “Have you ever thought that the cultural revolution is indeed comparable to McCarthyism?” After a meal and said: "Unfortunately, you McCarthyism