我的工作生涯基本上是在被称为大中华区,也就是包括中国大陆、香港和台湾等地区度过的。在这里度过了这么长的时间之后,如果我说中国融入世界经济的过程将成为21世纪人类社会的主题,可能会被认为带有偏见的。当我在20世纪70年代刚开始学习中文的时候,中国仍然是对外封闭的。坦率地讲,当时的美国主流社会对于在中国所发生的事情并不关心。美国对中国的关注程度在日益增加, My working life is basically spent in what is called Greater China, which includes China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. After spending so long here, if I say that the process of China’s integration into the world economy will become the theme of human society in the 21st century, it may be considered biased. When I first started learning Chinese in the 1970s, China was still closed to the outside world. Frankly, the mainstream American society at that time was not concerned about what happened in China. The U.S. interest in China is increasing,