當(dāng)年，他們第一次來(lái)中國(guó)

????林克坦承：“1973年過(guò)后，我了解到了很多東西，這才知道我在六十年代末從表面判斷毛澤東的‘社會(huì)主義’犯了多大的錯(cuò)誤。”他后來(lái)成為普林斯頓大學(xué)（Princeton）東亞研究教授。“我錯(cuò)得不能再錯(cuò)。令我有點(diǎn)困惑的是，我在上世紀(jì)六十年代認(rèn)識(shí)的其他一些左派友人有時(shí)似乎不愿面對(duì)這個(gè)明顯的事實(shí)。”

????《我的第一次中國(guó)之行》起源于香港《信報(bào)財(cái)經(jīng)新聞》（Hong Kong Economic Journal）網(wǎng)站上的一個(gè)每周系列專題。劉建民在致謝時(shí)寫(xiě)到，這個(gè)專題的兩位撰稿人司徒華和羅伯特?斯卡拉皮諾已經(jīng)去世，他們的文章沒(méi)有收錄在書(shū)中。據(jù)我所知，第三位撰稿人理查德?鮑姆在劉建民完成編寫(xiě)之后、該書(shū)出版之前也已經(jīng)去世。劉建民在收集這些回憶文章方面做出了出色的工作，并且恰逢其時(shí)。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

????譯者：千牛絮

????"In the years since 1973 I have learned much, much more about how wrong I was in the late 1960s to take Mao Zedong's 'socialism' at face value," confesses Link, who later became a professor of East Asian studies at Princeton. "I could not have been more mistaken. I am a bit puzzled that others among my leftist friends from the 1960s sometimes seem reluctant to face this obvious fact."

????My First Trip to China originated in a weekly series on the website of the Hong Kong Economic Journal. As Liu notes in his acknowledgements, two contributors to that series whose essays were not included in the book -- Szeto Wah and Robert Scalapino -- have since died, A third that I know of, Richard Baum, died after Liu finished writing and before the book appeared. Liu has performed a great service in collecting these memories, and he's done it none too soon.