初识张晓凌先生是在2005年的夏天,时任中国艺术研究院研究生院院长的张晓凌,邀清我做了学术讲座。从最初接触他的那一刻起,我就放下了对中国官员从艺的些许偏见,他的严谨治学和独特见解,都表明这是一位真正热爱艺术且眼界高远的理论家。作为中国文化的传播者,他和那些在千年以前穿越大漠,或是远渡重洋的探索者们并没有本质上的 First met Mr Zhang Xiaoling in the summer of 2005, Zhang Xiaoling, then dean of the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Arts, invited me to give an academic lecture. From the moment I first came into contact with him, I dropped some of the prejudices on the art of Chinese officials. His rigorous scholarship and unique insights have shown that this is a real art lover and far-reaching theorist. As a communicator of Chinese culture, he and his explorers who crossed the desert thousands of years ago or traveled far across the oceans did not have the essence