大约在十来年前,我到北京图书馆借书,偶然发现一本新加坡国立大学出版的《先秦哲理散文》,作者林徐典。该书无论体例、观点、方法、分析、论证,乃至文字都妥贴允当,严谨有序,一丝不苟。看得出来,作者虽然生活在南洋,治学的路数却保持着中国作风中国气派。于是就想交个朋友,尝试着写信联系,很快我收到回音。方知林先生是新加坡国立大学教授、中文系主任, About ten years ago, I borrowed a book from the Beijing Library and accidentally found a book “Pre-Qin Philosophy Prose” published by the National University of Singapore. The book regardless of the style, ideas, methods, analysis, argumentation, and even the text properly and properly, rigorous and orderly, meticulous. Can be seen, although the author lives in Nanyang, the number of scholarship has maintained a Chinese style Chinese style. So I wanted to make a friend, try to write a letter, I soon received an echoes. Mr. Fang Zhilin is a professor at the National University of Singapore, director of the Chinese Department,