love this other article by 黄维樑 from iFeng "一言难尽乔志高（下）"

志高先生年前回答记者如何评价自己时，自评为“in the forefront of the second rank（在二级作家中名列前茅）”其志如乔木之高的乔公，他谦逊？他“平理若衡”？他向来没有写雅俗共赏的新诗、小说或抒情散文，作品长销而不畅销，有知音而没有粉丝或很少粉丝，在将来的文学史中不可能占大席位，甚至缺席。不过，不管如何，不管一级二级或者三级，在纪念胡适、狄更斯、杜甫之际，各地“美语新诠”的读者，应该不会忘记其作者乔公。

I'd be happy as the forefront of the next to the last rank ! hehe...

Thanks for introducing Xu Xi. I landed on her site:

http://www.xuxiwriter.com/

susan, September 7, 2016, 11:19p.m.

So I was using Google trying to get to read the full text of Xu Xi 'Why I stopped being Chinese' ... next to my result-set, is another article floating right beneath her article: "China never really stopped being a copycat..." I find that uncanny and funny.

http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1934779/china-never-really-stopped-being-copycat-and-thats-why-its-tech-companies

Her fate as a great Chinese writer and a great English writer is at its peak. I'd say.... but life isn't all about writing, nor retreat to write with equal-mind, right?

susan, September 8, 2016, 10:55a.m.