［1］本文是他为赴美进修的中国档案工作者所作讲座的发言稿。一、蒋廷：局内的局外人蒋廷并不是一个家喻户晓的名字，但他对我来说并不陌生，我和他相伴了至少20年。60年代末70年代初我还是一名研究生，那时中华人民共和国还是我这一代学者的研究禁区，我开始对19世纪90年代出 [1] This article is a speech delivered by a Chinese archivist who studies for the United States. Jiang Ting: Jiang Ting, an outsider in the bureau, is not a household name, but he is no stranger to me. I accompanied him for at least 20 years. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, I was still a graduate student. At that time, the People’s Republic of China was still a restricted area for my generation of scholars. I started to study the 18th and 18th centuries