Bing Xin Quotes
Forget whatever should be forgotten, so that you can remember what should be remembered
This is a more nuanced view of history for a nation than the classic one, a Chinese example of one is {89195}.
Bing Xin, 1900–1999, Chinese Writer & Philosopher, Quoted in her obituary, China Daily, 1999
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For centuries whites had dominated and abused the Blacks of South Africa. When the Black majority finally gained power, there were many calls for retribution and justice. However, under Mandela’s influence, South Africa made one of the most successful transitions of power to the majority who had been oppressed. The concentration on the future made South Africa the most successful country in Africa and a model for the world. See {633690} for another of his implementing statements of this principle.
He was one of the few Irish clerics who urged a reproachment between Catholics and Protestants.
It is important to know history but not be bogged down by it.
Xie Wanying, better known by her pen name Bing Xin (Chinese: 冰心) or Xie Bingxin, was one of the most prolific Chinese women writers of the 20th century. Many of her works were written for young readers. She was the chairperson of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Her pen name Bing Xin (literally "Ice Heart") carries the meaning of a morally pure heart, and is taken from a line in a Tang Dynasty poem by Wang Changling.
