费慰梅,画家和艺术史学家,费正清的夫人。众所周知,费正清是世界上最负声望的中国问题观察家,他主编的《剑桥中国史》在美术史学界也是一本很受推崇的读物,但是人们难得知道费正清夫妇的中国名字是他们的老朋友梁思成取的。费慰梅称赞梁思成是一位对西方文化和思想与对自己的文化一样充满热情的人,而他们自己也同样是以毕生的热情拥抱了中国的艺术和文化。本期刊登的袁宝林和陈继春纪念费慰梅的文章,追述了这位热爱中国文化艺术的美国艺术家和学者在中国的行迹,这段鲜为人知的历史,堪称中外艺术交流史上的一段佳话。 活动于20世纪初的英国画家曼培斯也鲜为国人所知,他曾经来到中国,并走了很多地方,留下一批表现旧中国下层人民生活的生动绘画。鲍玉珩在美国的图书馆里找到了他这批作品的印刷品,并将它们介绍给国内的读者。鲍先生的文章从另一个侧面丰富了我们对于中外文化艺术交流历史的认识。 Fei Weimei, painter and art historian, Fei Zhengqing’s wife. As we all know, Fei is the most negative observer of China in the world. His edited “Cambridge History of China” is also a highly regarded reading material in art history, but it is rare to know that the Chinese name of the couple is their old Friend Liang Sicheng made. Fei Wei-Mei praised Liang Sicheng as a person who was as passionate about Western culture and thought as his own culture, and who themselves embraced Chinese art and culture with their lifelong enthusiasm. The articles published in this issue by Yuan Baolin and Chen Ji-chun commemorating Fei Wei-mei commemorate the track record of this Chinese artist and scholar who loves Chinese culture and art in China. This little-known history can be described as a passage in the history of Chinese and foreign art exchanges . Man Pius, an English painter who was active in the early 20th century, was also rarely known to the public. He had come to China and went a lot of places to leave vivid pictures of the life of the underclass in old China. Bao Yu Heng in the United States found his library prints of these works, and introduce them to domestic readers. Mr. Bao’s article enriches our understanding of the history of exchanges between Chinese and foreign cultures and arts from another perspective.