我1930年出生在北京协和医院。祖父是湖南新化人,是个大地主,也是个秀才,还会中医,经常有人来找他配药。我父亲叫杨开道,曾有人考证,说他与毛泽东的第一任夫人杨开慧是远房堂兄妹。父亲毕业于美国密歇根大学,获得两个博士学位,回国后任燕京大学社会学系系主任、法学院院长。他去哪里都带着书,连车里都装满了书,一有时间就看,这也使我从小就养成了爱读书的习惯。1937年,日本全面侵华战争开始,北平岌岌可危。为避战火,我们举家逃往重庆。当时重庆几乎天天遭到日本飞机 I was born in Beijing Union Medical College Hospital in 1930. His grandfather was a native of Xinhua, Hunan. He was also a landowner, a scholar, a Chinese medicine practitioner, and often someone came to find him dispensing medicine. My father, Yang Kaidao, had a textual research that said he and his first wife, Yang Kaihui, were distant cousins. His father graduated from the University of Michigan, obtaining two doctoral degrees, after returning to Yanjing University Department of Sociology, Dean, dean of law school. Wherever he went with the book, even the car was full of books, a time to see, which also made me develop a love of reading habits. In 1937, Japan’s war of all-out invasion of China began. Peking was in jeopardy. To avoid war, we flee to Chongqing. At that time, Chongqing was summoned to Japan almost daily