中国近日上映的一部讲述改革派领导人邓小平1979年访美的纪录片，因描绘了邓小平在德克萨斯州一家酒店遇袭的一幕而引发强烈关注。
A Chinese documentary about reformist leader Deng Xiaoping’s 1979 visit to the US has triggered a wave of excitement over a scene depicting an attack at a hotel in Texas.
《旋风九日》(Mr Deng Goes to Washington)上周五在北京首映，情节包括邓小平与时任美国总统的吉米•卡特(Jimmy Carter)的会晤。这部纪录片首次在中国披露了邓小平遭遇三K党人袭击的事件，但没有将之称为行刺事件。中国受到严格管控的官方媒体当时并未报道这起事件。
Mr Deng Goes to Washington , including interviews with then-president Jimmy Carter, opened this weekend in Beijing. The documentary depicts for the first time in China an attack on Deng by a Ku Klux Klan member, which was not then reported by China’s heavily controlled official press, but stops short of calling it an assassination attempt.
纪录片引起的反响表明，中国公众日益觉得美国是个威胁，同时又十分渴望了解先前被禁止报道的事件。
Reactions to the incident show the growing sense of the US as a menace combined with a public hunger for previously suppressed incidents.
但在中美两国摩擦加剧之际，这部纪录片还能够促使人们积极看待中美交往。对文化大革命之后刚刚巩固了权力的邓小平来说，那次访美之旅意义重大。
But the documentary also promotes a positive vision of engagement with the US, at a time of increasing friction between the two countries. The trip was a momentous one for Deng, who had recently consolidated power after the Cultural Revolution.
中国国内媒体对影片中的刺杀一幕十分着迷。一家媒体报道称，一名三K党成员“一边朝讲台上的邓小平冲去，一边从衣袖中抽出一把短刀”。《新京报》(Beijing News)则更进一步，称上述纪录片还原了“邓小平访美险遇刺杀这一惊险情节”。
The KKK attack, previously reported in the US, has consumed local media. “A KKK member rushed to the podium where Deng Xiaoping was speaking and pulled a knife out of his sleeve,” according to one report. Going a step further, the Beijing News described “details of Deng Xiaoping nearly being assassinated during his visit”.
实际上，当时在酒店大堂，是一名白人至上主义者企图接近邓小平，向他身上泼红油漆。这名图谋不轨者被邓小平身边的一名特勤人员制服。
In fact, Deng was approached in a hotel lobby by a white supremacist who planned to spray him with red paint. The would-be assailant was punched by a member of Deng’s secret service detail.
事件发生数年后进入中国外交部工作的高志凯(Victor Gao)表示，这部纪录片提到这起事件意味着，它已成为“正史”的一部分。“在中国，真正的历史是官方讲述的东西。”
The inclusion in the documentary makes the incident a part of “official history”, said Victor Gao, who joined the foreign ministry a few years later. “Real history in China is something the government officially reports.” Lucy Hornby, Beijing