时间过得真快,离开这本小书初版忽忽已经过了二十八个年头。当时意气风发的中年,不可阻挡地进入了老年状态。在以怀旧的心态翻出书箱底下仅存的这本小书,是庆幸当年有这么本小书存在呢?还是后悔当年没有把这本书继续写下去?本来我是有这个写下去的打算的。记得1983年该书出版后,日本研究茅盾的汉学专家松井博光先生,曾建议我将此书交与他们译成日语。我婉拒了,我说这本书太薄了,还是等以后再说吧,他理解。然而,我却始终没有继续写 Time flies, leaving the first edition of this book suddenly ignored suddenly after twenty-eight years. At that time high-spirited middle age, inexorably into the state of the elderly. In the nostalgic mind turned out the bottom of the bookcase only this small book, is fortunate then there is such a small book there? Still regretted that year did not write down the book? Originally, I have this written down plan of. I remember that after the publication of the book in 1983, Komatsu Matsui, a sinologist who studied Mao Tun in Japan, had suggested that I submit the book to them in Japanese. I declined, I said this book is too thin, or wait until later, he understood. However, I did not continue to write