1937年,在英国牛津大学留学的杨宪益偶然认识了戴乃迭(Gladys Tayler),戴乃迭的父亲戴乐仁(J.B.Tayler)是来华传教士,曾在天津新学书院教书,后在燕京大学做经济学教授,上世纪三十年代在甘肃贫困农村创办工业合作化组织。戴乃迭出生在北京,从小她对中国就有直观的印象,以至于后来,她还经常跟杨 In 1937, Yang Hsien-yi, who had studied in the University of Oxford in England, met Gladys Tayler by accident. Gladys’s father, JB Taylor, was a missionary in China. After teaching at Tianjin Xin Xue College and later at Yanjing University Professor of Economics, the last century, thirties in poor rural areas in Gansu founded industrial cooperation organizations. Gladys was born in Beijing, and from an early age she had an intuitive impression of China so much so that afterwards she often told Young