20世纪70年代中期,我以本科交换生的身份来到香港学习,那是我第一次到中国。然而,当时我能到的距离中国大陆最近的地方就是香港新界的罗湖火车站。直到1984年,完成了新加坡的博士论文调研后,我本打算回美国,后终下定决心要到中国走一遭。于是我走访了广州,还去了中山大学,尽管那 In the mid-1970s, I came to Hong Kong as an undergraduate exchange student and it was my first visit to China. However, the closest place I could get to mainland China was the Lo Wu Railway Station in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It was not until 1984 that after completing the doctoral dissertation research in Singapore, I planned to return to the United States and eventually decided to go to China. So I visited Guangzhou, but also went to Sun Yat-sen, despite that