毛新宇在人大會場外的"長征記"
【英文原文】
Long March: Comrade, Where's My Car?
The opening day of China's legislative session is one of the hottest political dates of the calendar. Despite the mostly ceremonial role of the roughly 3,000-member National People's Congress, China's military, political and business elite fill up the marble corridors of the Great Hall of the People.
One star this year is Mao Xinyu, grandson of China's founding father, Chairman Mao Zedong. The roly-poly grandson is now a researcher in a military academy specializing in his grandfather's political theory, Mao Zedong Thought.
The younger Mao is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a sort of council of elders filled with celebrities, sports stars and scientists who meet at the same time as the legislature. Mao proposed his grandfather's thought should be applied to modern military strategy.
Dressed in his military uniform and carrying an extra-large manila folder filled with documents, wherever Mao went, he was quickly surrounded by reporters who peppered him with questions and fans posing for photographs alongside the Great Helmsman's progeny. (OK, we did it, too.)
After the opening speeches were over, he walked out between the massive pillars of the hall and down onto Tiananmen Square, temporarily turned into a parking lot filled with the identical black cars ferrying VIP delegates.
Only catch, Mao couldn't find his car. As he wandered around the square trying to dodge a growing crowd of reporters - following a circuitous route - similar to his Grandfathers windy Long March in shape if not form or duration - firefighters in helmets and orange-jump suits tried to block the media while radioing for help.
Defeated, eventually he retreated back up the steps and into the hall for a strategic regrouping.
【中文譯文】
毛新宇在人大會場外的“長征記”
全國人大會議開幕的那一天是一年中引發最多熱議的政治日子。儘管有3,000名代表參加的人大會議扮演的主要是儀式性的角色，中國的軍事、政治和企業精英卻把人民大會堂的大理石走廊擠得是水泄不通。
本文作者與毛新宇合影今年的明星人物之一是新中國開國領袖毛澤東的孫子毛新宇。身材圓圓胖胖的毛新宇現爲軍事科學院研究員，主要從事毛澤東思想的研究。
毛新宇是全國政協委員。政協主要由名人、體育明星和科學家等老資格人士組成。全國政協會議與人大會議幾乎同時召開。毛新宇的提案是，毛澤東思想應該運用於現代軍事戰略中。
毛新宇身着軍裝、拿着一個裝滿文件的超大文件夾。無論走到哪裏，他都會很快被記者和粉絲包圍起來，記者們向他鋪天蓋地提問，而粉絲們則搶着和偉大領袖的後人合影。（好吧，我們也不例外。）
在人大開幕式結束後，毛新宇從人民大會堂巨大的柱子之間走出來，走到天安門廣場上；天安門廣場已經變成了臨時停車場，上面停滿了一模一樣的、用來接送貴賓委員的黑色轎車。
問題是，毛新宇找不到自己的車了。他在廣場上繞來繞去、試圖躲開越來越多的記者之際（他採取的是迂迴路線，和他祖父曲折的長征路線有異曲同工之處，只是形式和持續時間不同），頭戴鋼盔、身穿桔黃色連體工作服的消防員一邊努力擋開媒體，一邊用無線電尋求幫助。
努力未果，毛新宇最後撤回到臺階上，回到人民大會堂大廳，進行“戰略整編”。
