1979年访美归来,我接到美国汉学家、加利福尼亚大学教授路易斯·罗宾逊(Lewis Robinson)的来函,说他正在研究我早期所写的揭露教会学校黑暗面的小说,问我在几十年之后,对于基督教在态度上有无改变;如有,是哪些改变。我记得当时在回信中曾说,小说是生活的反映。我揭露并反对的是二十年代的强迫性信仰,以及宗教和帝国主义的关系,但并未反对宗教本身。我尊敬耶稣这位被压迫民族的 Returning to the United States in 1979, I received a letter from a U.S. sinologist and professor at the University of California, Lewis Robinson, who said I was studying my earlier novel about exposing the dark side of the church school. After decades of asking , Whether there is any change in attitude to Christianity; if so, what changes. I remember saying in my reply at that time that novels are a reflection of life. What I exposed and opposed was the obsessive belief of the 1920s and the relationship between religion and imperialism but did not oppose religion itself. I respect this oppressed nation of Jesus