厦门大学韩宇老师来函,希望我为美国史研究会网站的“南开、武大美国史学科五十年”专题写点回忆文字,称我是唯一在这两所大学的美国史研究机构都曾工作过的人。我的确是在中国美国史的这两个学术重镇都待过十年左右的时间,可是鄙人从来不记日记,加之忘性太大,许多细节都往事如烟了,所以一时要写这类东西还真的是比做学术文章都难,后者有文献 Letter from Han Yu, Xiamen University, I hope I can write a few memos for the topic of “History of American History in Nankai and Wu Da” of the website of the American History Research Society and call me the only one in the history of American history in both universities People who have worked I did spend ten years or so in both academic centers of American history in our country. However, I never remember diary. In addition, I forget too much and many details are futile. Really is more difficult to do than academic articles, the latter literature