我们确曾希望他能够恢复足够的体力回到他心爱的北京。直到他去世之前的那一个星期,他还是那么焦急、那么渴望返回中国。——摘自珍妮·莫理循1920年6月20日给婆母的信莫理循是一个出生在澳大利亚的英国人。他原是《泰晤士报》的驻京记者,后来被邀为袁世凯北洋军阀政府的政治顾问,在中国长达20多年。本世纪初,已有许多外国记者来过中国,然而,很少人能 We did hope he could recover enough energy to return to his beloved Beijing. Until the week before his death, he was so anxious, so eager to return to China. - Excerpt from Jenny Morrison’s letter to her mother on June 20, 1920 Morrison was a British born in Australia. Originally a reporter for the Times in Beijing, he was later invited as political advisor to Yuan Shikai’s northern warlord government for more than 20 years in China. At the beginning of this century, many foreign journalists have been to China. However, few people can