A Star-Studded Cast

《建国大业》

主要演员

按官方全明星海报从左到右顺序排列

* 唐国强 饰 毛泽东
* 张国立 饰 蒋介石
* 许 晴 饰 宋庆龄
* 刘 劲 饰 周恩来
* 陈 坤 饰 蒋经国
* 王学圻 饰 李宗仁
* 邬君梅 饰 宋美龄

客串演员

粗体字人名为电影海报中列出的联合主演

共产党方面人物

* 王伍福 饰 朱 德
* 刘 沙 饰 刘少奇
* 王 健 饰 任弼时
* 江 珊 饰 邓颖超
* 史 鑫 饰 邓小平
* 宗利群 饰 彭德怀
* 由立平 饰 林 彪
* 赵 雍 饰 贺 龙
* 侯 勇 饰 陈 赓
* 黄晓明 饰 李银桥（毛泽东的卫士长）
* 陈 好 饰 傅冬菊（傅作义的女儿）

国民党方面人物

* 尤 勇 饰 白崇禧
* 修宗迪 饰 傅作义
* 胡 军 饰 顾祝同
* 李 强 饰 陈 诚
* 李连杰 饰 陈绍宽（国民革命军海军一级上将）
* 刘德华 饰 俞济时
* 姜 文 饰 毛人凤
* 佟大为 饰 孔令侃
* 陈宝国 饰 周至柔（国民革命军空军一级上将）
* 刘仪伟 饰 李 璜
* 曹可凡 饰 吴国桢
* 黎 明 饰 蔡廷锴
* 陈道明 饰 阎锦文（国军起义将领）
* 陈凯歌 饰 冯玉祥

民主人士

* 甄子丹 饰 田 汉
* 邓 超 饰 徐悲鸿
* 毕彦君 饰 罗隆基
* 吴 刚 饰 闻一多
* 王 冰 饰 张 澜
* 金 鑫 饰 李济深

其他人物

* 冯小刚 饰 杜月笙
* 冯远征 饰 傅泾波（司徒雷登私人秘书）


无名、杜撰人物

* 章子怡、赵薇、苗圃、董璇、陈数、宁静、张秋芳、沈傲君、梁家辉、曾志伟、郭德纲、王雅捷、赵宝乐 饰 开会代表
* 赵宁宇、王学兵、王宝强 饰 解放军军人
* 龚蓓苾、何琳、杨若兮、车永莉 饰 女兵
* 范 伟 饰 毛泽东的厨师
* 葛 优 饰 解放军团长卢广声
* 成 龙 饰 采访李济深的记者
* 孙红雷 饰 《中央日报》记者胡立伟
* 刘 烨 饰 红军老兵
* 黄圣依 饰 共产党播音员
* 李幼斌 饰 报社社长
* 梁家辉 饰 解放军代表
* 连 晋 饰 周至柔副官
* 孙 兴 饰 副官
* 陶泽如 饰 唱票员
* 吴宇森 饰 国军军官
* 徐 帆 饰 宋庆龄的朋友

此外传说还有张涵予、梁朝伟、李雪健、赵本山等。

躬逢其盛

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/business/26lawyers.html?em

August 26, 2009

Downturn Dims Prospects Even at Top Law Schools

By GERRY SHIH

This fall, law students are competing for half as many openings at big firms as they were last year in what is shaping up to be the most wrenching job search season in over 50 years.

For students now, the promise of the big law firm career — and its paychecks — is slipping through their fingers, forcing them to look at lesser firms in smaller markets as well as opportunities in government or with public interest groups, law school faculty and students say.

The frenzy has even pushed the nation’s top firms, a tradition-bound coterie, into discussing how to reform the recruitment process with an earnestness that would have been unthinkable just years ago.

Even if the economy is beginning to pick up, the legal profession has been pummeled over the last year, with some firms closing and survivors often asking associates to take leaves of absence.

How bad is it? Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, the juggernaut of New York, has slashed its hiring by more than half. For the first time in 136 years, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, a respected Philadelphia firm, has canceled its recruiting entirely. Global firms like DLA Piper and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe have postponed recruiting for several months to see if the market improves.

At Yale, students accustomed to being wooed by Big Law’s glittering names — like Baker & McKenzie; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, & McCloy; and White & Case — were stunned when those firms canceled interviews in New Haven this month.

New York University, Georgetown, Northwestern and other top universities confirm that interviews are down by a third to a half compared with a year ago, while lower-ranked schools are suffering more. What is more, when interviews finish in a few weeks, even fewer offers will be extended, said Howard L. Ellin, the chairman of global hiring at Skadden, Arps, because many firms are interviewing students for slots they may not fill.

After he lost his job as a television reporter two years ago, Derek Fanciullo considered law school, thinking it was a historically sure bet. He took out “a ferocious amount of debt,” he said — $210,000, to be exact — and enrolled last September in the School of Law at New York University.

“It was thought to be this green pasture of stability, a more comfortable life,” said Mr. Fanciullo, who had heard that 90 percent of N.Y.U. law graduates land jobs at firms, and counted on that to repay his loans. “It was almost written in stone that you’ll end up in a law firm, almost like a birthright.”

With the cost of law school skyrocketing over the years, the implicit arrangement between students and the most expensive and prestigious schools has only strengthened: the student takes on hefty debt to pay tuition, and the school issues the golden ticket to a job at a high-paying firm — if that’s what the student wants.

“Students came in with a certain sense of what the compact was going to be,” said Irene Dorzback, the assistant dean for career services at the New York University School of Law. But with the system crumbling in recent months, Ms. Dorzback said, “people are now accepting this notion of a lost year.”

The timing is worst for the class of 2011, the second-years now looking to get into firms, because of a unique logjam created last year. After the September financial crisis, firms chose to defer their new hires at the price of steeply cutting recruiting this year.

But students who miss the brief window of opportunity to land an offer this fall may struggle to break into firms once next year’s class rises. When Julia Figurelli, a second-year student at the University of Pennsylvania, decided to enter law school a year ago, she expected to find a lucrative law firm job in three years — if not collecting the $160,000-a-year associate salaries at one of the uppermost partnerships. By the time she obtains her J.D., she says, she will have around $200,000 in debt.

“Had I seen where the market was going, I would’ve gone to a lower-ranked but less expensive public school,” she said. “I’m questioning whether law school was the right choice at all.”

Once aiming to work in Philadelphia, Ms. Figurelli is now hunting for jobs in lower-paying markets, like Pittsburgh and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. “I’m looking anywhere my competition isn’t looking,” she added.

School officials are pushing students to look beyond the white-shoe firms, to delve deep into alumni networks and to start mass letter-writing campaigns to potential employers. Like Ms. Figurelli, many students say that for the first time, they are considering and seeking work with government and public-interest groups.

The Social Security Administration, for example, said applications for lawyer positions and clerkships had more than doubled this year, to 2,000, from 800. The public-interest job fair at N.Y.U. this year was “packed to the gills,” Mr. Fanciullo recalled, but whereas in past years students had seven or eight interviews, some of his classmates this year had zero. “There’s a humongous trickle-down effect,” he said. “When the big firms don’t hire, everyone looks to government. And when those get filled up, then what happens?”

It has been a bizarre new reality, especially for elite schools. At Harvard, officials have had to hawk résumés or tell students, quite simply, to buck up. (“Now is not the time for avoidance, denial or panic,” Mark Weber, the assistant dean of career services, wrote in a March memo to Harvard Law’s graduating class.)

With the system’s frailties exposed by the recession, said Mr. Ellin from Skadden, Arps, the time could be ripe for “massive overhaul.”

Discussions at industry roundtables and casual talk among officials at leading schools and firms suggest a consensus that interview dates should be pushed back to the spring of the second year, if not the third year. The recent problems have arisen, reform-minded critics say, because the legal industry essentially hires two full years ahead of when employees begin to work. And because young lawyers have to be advanced by lockstep every year, it is difficult to make recruiting changes that are responsive to shocks in business.

“There’s a long list of issues that need re-examining,” said Ralph Baxter, the chairman of Orrick. “The current economic circumstances have helped people see the economic inefficiencies we’ve been living with.”

Even lockstep, as sacred a pillar of Big Law as the billable hour, has been undermined by the hiring headaches of the last year, some argue. Orrick and another major firm, Howrey, have introduced innovative programs for associates based on apprenticeships or tiered systems that depart from the traditional “up or out” partner-track models. Some industry observers say their moves represent first steps that may ultimately give firms greater flexibility in hiring.

“The situation is so dramatic it has freed them up to make changes that they wouldn’t otherwise,” said James G. Leipold, the executive director of the Association for Legal Career Professionals. “We’re going through a period of a surprising amount of experimentation.”

Not that any of those changes will come into effect soon enough to help the class of 2011.

On a recent Friday afternoon, Mr. Fanciullo sat at home waiting anxiously for his first callback after four days of interviews. Firms customarily called within 48 hours, he explained.

“You almost bank on the big firms hiring you because they’re really the only ones who can help you pay your debt,” he said, his mind already skipping forward to a situation he didn’t choose to articulate. “Quite frankly it would be an absolute disaster. I don’t know what I’d do.”

風城

也許芝加哥真的是一座風城，也許我真的有一半是風相的雙子座。總之，從芝加哥回來後每天至少產生三個博客靈感，和在匹茲堡的那年一樣。（當然，寫下來的時間是沒有的。）

通常的星座書關於地相（in my case, 金牛）和風相有這樣的說法：

“地相星座的人慎重、冷靜，對待感情真誠持久，做事也腳踏實地 ，但有時過於保守和自信心不強。風相星座的人思維發達，想像力豐富，有思想家的傾向，擅長社交，語言表達能力強，但…（省略負面評價）”

可能芝加哥涼爽的夏風又把我“思維發達，想象力豐富”的毛病給刮出來了吧。

──關於開學前的這幾次出行，以後慢慢敘，不急。

Xinjiang

Migrants Describe Grief From China’s Strife (NYT 7-8)

A Strongman Is China’s Rock in Ethnic Strife (NYT 7-10)

妙语

兰小欢：http://www.bullogger.com/blogs/shafa/archives/304671.aspx

“主权的原则，古今中外都是大事，动辄流血千里伏尸百万。可正是因为大，才要小心翼翼对待，谨慎，谨慎，再谨慎。不能随随便便就谈主权，不能随随便便就谈“防止分裂”，不能在新疆的大街小巷几角旮旯男女老幼中都时时刻刻不断提醒“防止分裂”。

“如果不明白这一点，想象你很爱你的丈夫或妻子，不想家庭破裂。所以你在家里的各个角落都贴上“防止外遇”，“反对分裂”，“严防境外第三者煽动”，而且每周都要花一天的时间强迫你爱人学习这些“文件”。后果会怎样呢？就算你总是给他钱，小恩小惠的讨好对方，又能怎样呢？

“最后，不离婚的话，就只能靠家庭暴力了。”

转载：新疆来信（二）

http://www.hecaitou.net/?p=5958

民族仇恨的再思考---写在7.05事件后，有的朋友开始了仇恨

这两天陆陆续续从各个管道看到了很多7.05事件的报道，文字、照片、视频。其中的血腥和残暴让心情久久无法平复。最让人纠结的是，这些人当中，施 暴的是我的左邻，受到残害的是我的右舍。就是这些生活在我们身边周围的人，为什么就突然着了魔，中了蛊。嘴里的“有咯达西”变成了“囊死该”，扬起的笑脸 变成了夜幕下狰狞，手中弹奏的“冬不拉”变成了滴血的“英吉沙”，昨天的兄弟变成了那夜的“伊卜利斯”（伊斯兰教中的魔鬼）。

最贫瘠的土地上都能滋养出茂盛的仇恨之花。仇恨的种子在荒漠上依然扎根发芽。虽然我远离了这块让人深爱的土地，无法感受哪里的亲人们是在怎样的恐 惧、无助、悲伤、痛苦中挣扎。但是，在外地的同学们中，可怕的声音已经悄悄的出现。对民族之间的误解在那个夜晚之后，变得象是心中的天堑鸿沟。

为什么这些身边的兄弟朋友变成了魔鬼？这个问题很长，是人性当中最黑暗最丑陋的部分。但是我们不能回避，更不能说这是别人的事情，和我无关。这里我 想举个自己家庭的例子：我的父母都是读过书上过学，参加过革命的老同志了。在当时，应该是具有一定知识的少部分人。可是，我的爸爸，在文革初期，一样参加 了造反派。举起了革命的大旗。相信这样的故事，发生在那个时代里面的每个家庭当中，当热潮退去，冷静下来后，每个人都在思考，当年的我是怎么了？

无论中国，在疯狂来临的时候，任何普通的灵魂都将被裹夹其中，无法脱逃。在欧洲，以理性，逻辑，严谨著称的德国民族，出了如此多伟大哲学家的民族， 当一个恶魔发出“奋斗”的召唤时，整个国家和民族，一样的沉迷，一样的混沌。以上种种，人性使然。并没有什么先知，更没有什么智者，在洪流汹涌而来时，我 们最需要作的就是，尽量留一点清醒冷静的思考。好让最后的一点人性之光不泯灭在无尽的黑暗中。

举起屠刀的人，它只是一具躯壳。它一样会在某个时刻的当下，一身冷汗的想：我是怎么了？仇恨最好的搭档是无知、是谣言、是盲从。有了这三个兄弟的帮衬和辅佐，仇恨就开始在人间大行其道了。这样的谣言比比皆是：从一件普通的刑事案件到很久以前一桩未了的葬礼等等，不一而足。

不仅历史上有偏见造成的误解和纷争，现在亦然。北京人经常说新疆的某族人都是小偷，难道是真的吗？这个民族的人什么都不干，就作小偷，专出小偷？我 在石河子生活的时候，由于民族问题不突出，就把这样的偏见大帽子扣在了某个中原大省人的头上。荒谬和无稽可见一斑。没了靶子都硬要拉出来一个，反正横竖都 要有个练手的？

恐怖的夜晚过后，我们可以有多个选择，可以举起“马可伈”把所谓的异族都突突了，反正它们人少，只能认栽了。或者，把它们都给圈起来，弄个三等公民 扔给它们且让它们苟活着算是对它们施恩了。抑或着，是其它什么呢？但是，我是知道，我的祖上姓李，从李世民哪会开始就有了异族的血液，中华的血脉里流淌的 绝不是一个单一种族的血液，而是生活在这块土地上各族人民的混合。

真主保佑我们每个人，不论你的种族，肤色，语言。如果有一天，你真的能到天国去和真主、耶稣、佛陀等各位神仙见面了，我始终相信他们是说着同一种语言的一家人。漫天神佛都降临下来，就在我们的身边。你看得见吗？

转载：新疆来信（一）

来自和菜头的博客：

http://www.hecaitou.net/?p=5958

网友LiHe来信说：

菜头，潜水很久，第一次写信，因为我是一个新疆人，下面是三篇我写给同学的文字，希望能在树洞里说一说！

在那遥远的地方---写在新疆暴乱之后

人家问我，你是哪里人？我说：那还用说啥吗？我是新疆人。这骨子劲啥时候都没有丢过。为啥这样说呢？因为简单的很吗，我生于斯，长于斯。2000年 从那边刚出来，正赶上那会儿也出事了，到北京了一和别人聊天，听我这样说，对方都惊讶的看着我，意思是：你能不能小声点儿。北京正严防死守你这样的人呢， 你还大声嚷嚷？一般对方还都会出于好心的叮嘱我一句：没事千万被轻易把身份证给别人看啊，现在正查的严呢！当时的我还处在“所谓”狭隘的底层，正琢磨着爆发小宇宙呢，所以根本就不鸟这样的好意，到那里都还是拍着胸脯说：咋了吗，是新疆人不行吗？

这种原产地带来的认同感来得如此强烈，已经超出了普通理性的思考成分。因为此类现象在我的新疆同学们身上比比皆是。不关这些同学们身在那个城市：北 京、上海、广州、海外，他们都能为了一个地名的缘故而心同所想，身同所受。有一次我们在北京弄了次大型的同学聚会，到了近一百人，没想到会场门口还有不是 我们年纪的新疆同学也想要来参加这个活动。更无论我们在生活中能从陌生人的腔调中清晰准确的第一时间辨认到，你是新疆人吧？对方惊奇的问：那个啥，你咋知 道的？我们会说：那个啥，我就知道啥吗。老乡，就在这样一句话的光景里，在遥远的他乡街头近近的相遇了。

我的同学们在有了孩子后，总是想着让自己的孩子也认同这种身份的原产地，可惜，在我的观察里，他们都是失败了。上海的小姑娘一定会扭着身体说：阿拉是上海宁，你们才是新疆人呢！小手一扬，指着失望的尴尬的父母。北京的小屁孩的就会大声的嚷道：我是北京人，我不是新疆人。他的父母苦笑着摇头。别怪这些 孩子，他们距离我们的世界如此的遥远，又怎么能明白你们作父母的苦心呢？可我却想到，为什么我们如此的爱着那块土地，却要离它如此的遥远呢？

原来我看不懂的电影是这样的情节：留学生在费劲力气来到了海外，经过百般艰辛，终于在当地立足扎根，但是片尾都煽情动人的描写，他们还是深爱着祖 国，心向往之虽身不能至。当时我一边看一边嘀咕：当彪子还要立牌坊。你有本事就回来啊！别在外面享着清福装痛苦。现在我渐渐明白了，这根本就是两件事情， 远离它和深爱它并不矛盾。今天，如此的心神慌乱，是因为那块让我们魂牵梦绕的土地上，又出事了。

昨天晚上，看见报到，只说出事了，因为我们都成长在“战斗”的环境里，经常耳闻目睹当地的各类大事件，并没有觉得能怎样。直到下午时分才知道事情弄 的这么的惨烈。一颗心顿时纠结起来，无法释怀。那里有我们的老师，有我们的同学，有我们的朋友，他们都怎样了呢？血雨漫天过，亲人应无恙！我想：这是一定 的。无论如何，如何无论，把人的生命随意的践踏都是滔天的罪行，佛说：杀人者人恒杀之！我们怎么会去造这个恶业？主耶稣说：恨人就是杀人。而杀人是多么大 的仇恨啊？世界上有很多种方法去解决问题：有甘地，用了一个人的三十年，采用不合作运动。有曼德拉，用了一个人的二十七年，铁窗大牢。还有李光耀，等等。 虽然世界上到处都是为了争取杜丽而杀伐无数，但不也有大把的运动达到了目的并化干戈为玉帛吗！难道只因为暴力的叠加是唯一通向地狱的捷径而大家要彼此争先恐后吗？

我相信，恐怖过后，一定是平静祥和。在那肥美的土地上，到处散落的：是晶莹如宝石的湖泊，是雪白如白云的羊群，是善良如厚土的人民。我狭隘的以为， 是不是这样的方法就能让那里的生活安宁如昔呢：经济再发达一些，商品再丰富一些，内地的人们排着队的去游玩，沿海的人们扎着堆的去投资，资本市场的热钱发 了疯去开发，这些人和钱过去的同时，就顺带着把“和”、“平”的儒家文化也带了进去，感染那里的每个兄弟。或许，那里的天空下就一直飘荡着安宁美好的歌 声。

大有大的角度，小的小的作法。可能，会有大智慧大境界的领导人物去作一些开创新局面的事情，我由衷的这样期望着。自己，这么个小小的人物又能做什么 呢？我想，要做的还是挺多呢。至少，告诉身边的朋友们，在那遥远的地方，有美丽的山川和风景，和我一起出发吧，带上更多身边的人，去那里走走，看看，玩玩，一点点的努力，都是家乡那片草原上青绿中的一棵小小。

愿生者健康，伤者吉祥，亡者归于天堂。让我们祈祷，愿真主使我们平安，السلام عليك

Affirmative Action (and Equal Opportunity), China Edition

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/media-tour-goes-very-very-badly-for-chinese-authorities/?apage=3#comments

I came across this reader's comment on an article of NYT's Lede blog. Although the language could be more polished, it nicely summarizes what I was thinking and wanted to write about.

53. July 7, 2009 3:15 pm

To Saad Khan:

Amazing, “Civil liberties and equal opportunities are unheard thing in
China”. I came from Urimuqi, and actually I grew up at the street that is in
this center of the riot, and I have been living in the US for the past 15 years.
Let me straight[en] out some facts about China:

1.) Everybody knows that China has one Child per Family policy. Well, that
only applies to Han Chinese. For Uighur, Tibetan, and ALL other minority group,
this policy does not apply. Obviously, there is NO equal opportunities for the
majority Han Chinese. I hope this is what you intended to say.

2.) For ALL graduating high school students coming from ALL minority group,
that includes the Uighur, it’s the government’s policy that these students would
get bonus scores in their national entrance exam for colleges. In 1989, the year
I graduated from high school, each minority student get 80 points in their
overall test score. The full score in that year was 650. This put huge advantage
on the students from minority groups, such as Uighur. Obviously, there is no
equal opportunity for the majority Han Chinese students. I hope this is what you
mean in your message.

3.) In Xinjiang area, it’s government policy to promote people from
minority groups such as Uighur for various government leadership positions in
China. Take Xinjiang. It’s government’s official policy to promote people from
Uighur and other minority group to deputy leader position in all government
offices. So no matter how remotely they qualify for these position, they are
promoted to deputy chairman, deputy secretary of the communist party, and so on.
Obviously, there is NO EQUAL opportunities for the majority Han Chinese, who, as
an ethical group, generally put more value on education, and are generally
better educated. I hope this what you intended to say about equal opportunities
situation in China.

This message is not only targeted to your comment here, but also targeted
to all other people holding the same opinion. When you make a affirmative
comments regards something, it requires you to have a basic understanding and
knowledge about it. If you do not, please go back and do some
homework.

— John

Just in case you are interested--I also participated in this discussion from the pubic computer at the New York Supreme Court. Check out comments #59, #73, and #111, under the name "Hubris". These are not my best writings but you get the gist. You'll notice the change of tone as you read through the three posts. Here's #111:

Despite my posts in #59 and #73, I want to add that this particular piece of report is not explicitly biased; and from all the responses I can tell Mr. Mackey himself is a fair-minded reporter.

The bias I point to is larger than this particular post and this particular reporter. The only way to overcome such bias, and indeed the only way to achieve better understanding between China and the West, is for everybody to be more reasonable and objective.

It might take a hundred years, and everybody should be patient.

For that reason, I denounce those posts that viciously attack Mr. Mackey’s character.

from a Chinese citizen in the United States

— Hubris

Mind Your BlackBerry or Mind Your Manners

Mind Your BlackBerry or Mind Your Manners (NYT 6-21)

The X-Files

http://www.hecaitou.net/?p=5806
(2009-6-19)

http://www.douban.com/note/34805316/
(2009-5-29)

http://www.bullogger.com/blogs/shafa/archives/286993.aspx
(2009-3-24)

http://investment-digest.blogspot.com/2009/02/hkej_03.html
(2009-2-4)

http://www.luoyonghao.net/blogs/luoyonghao/archives/122475.aspx
(2009-1-17)

http://www.wangxiaofeng.net/?p=1831
(2008-2-5)