The Chinese woman and the Jew
Posté par ITgium le 13 décembre 2013
A jùn mǎ 俊 马 tale 故事 (François de la Chevalerie)
Jade… as the British actor Georges Sanders whispers with his inimitable cockney accent
Jade Yu Shan is a native of the city of Donguang, southern china, in a family learned and rather well off.
Her dad is committed in a computer equipment manufacture. Mom at home.
Jade spent twenty years of her early life having the small talks, the same food, the same everything, worse still, the same ways in treating colds and flu’s.
So, she enjoyed the daily life of the average Chinese middle class, revenues goes up to.
Those early years, sometimes she looked herself in her room mirror and compared to others.
- I want to see what it would be like to live in another body, in another land. For what unknown reasons, I am rooted here in China? For what reason I am what I am? She asked nervously.
Hers is indeed a curious situation.
Rejecting a sense of despair, she decided to take its fate into her own hands. She went in England, Manchester, stayed one year in the middle of the British crowd.
- Even if I smelt the sense of freedom, a possibility of going so far as to say everything, I realized that I have a Chinese mind, an indestructible sense of conservatism.
Tradition still carried considerable weight in her mind.
She came back in China having no hope, however, of improving her intelligence.
She recalled the Albert Einstein quote: “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
In Guangzhou, this modern woman devoted her leisure time drinking, chatting. Mainly, dressing as the Queen of the Night, she danced until the music was over, enthralled with her dance steps and oblivious of others around her.
Jade claimed often she is cynical.
Apparently, a state of mind.
She isn’t but, over the years, she built her own credo, a somewhat celebration of a pessimistic thinking.
As stated by J. Robert Oppenheimer “The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.”
Some examples of Jade Yu Shan quotes:
- I don’t like competition.
- I don’t like arguing.
- I am so tired of all these arguments.
- I don’t like quite anything in this goddamn world except my shoes. I like to take them in picture. Do you know for what reason? Shoes are innocent! I can go everywhere without arguing. Good slaves, aren’t they?
Her sad soul nestles as sorrow, coined with this latin saying:
“Accipe quam primum, brevis est occasio lucri[1]”
In her complex life, there’s very little she can control.
As for instance, her age. As she nears 30 years, it comes as no surprise that her parents urged her to get married.
- Take a man no matter who he is as he is wealthy!
This old Chinese saying comes to every mouth.
She was exhausted to hear such noisy call.
That’s when a Jew comes to her life.
Two cultures very far from each other and still very similar. Both rooted in eternities.
As a Jew, the man has an oratorical art, made of imprecations and repetitions, peculiar to the subtle and grandiloquent prophets the Jewish people has always had.
As a Jew, he is extremely sensitive.
Every morning, he asks himself whether he will remain alive the same night.
August 1942, by a thick fog in the Belgium countryside, his family was tracked down, arrested and taken to the Auschwitz concentration camps.
None returns alive except his dad disabled and mentally destroyed.
Seventy years after, his son bears always the stigma of being chronically invaded by the thunder of guns.
This man is a real wandering Jew living in more than one country simultaneously, gaining market share from one company to another.
Growing old, he realized the urgency of being father.
When he saw her for the first time in a cozy artist painter workshop, he loved her at the first sight.
Well, she welcomed the idea by a very short, writing SMS stylized.
“Yes!”
That’s a poor beginning but something was perhaps much more striking and disturbing in the guy’s mind.
For him, nobody exists except in suffering.
“ Jade, once i saw you dancing, I read on your face some sadness, a mark of absolute desperation. I believe that this will be one of my fondest memories of our relation. “
Do you believe that?
What kind of man is he?
Accordingly, he spent all his time arguing as he learned in his Kabbalah teachings.
- I don’t appreciate your comment about my somewhat “sex” interest for you. If you think in that way, I should recommend you to stop any kind of relation with me!
More disruptive was his faith that the child of this union was to embody a bridge between the West and china.
However, those thoughts were part of the Jewish universalism arsenal that claims that the course of human history may change by the Jewish waves.
Jade didn’t care so much.
She went away in India, dressed beautifully in a Sari.
Any man would do well to keep in mind the Chinese saying: « I hear and I forget”.
At the end, she wrote to him:
- I think your problem is, you want more than one woman, so you’ve been busy between two, you won’t get any if you lost their trust, and your sensitiveness blocks all the communication. If you insist this way, you tired people.
Then she left.
Then, the wandering Jew followed his way with no place to settle, no wish to do so.
“The worst thing in life, lost the love of the life”.
They will remember.
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