说来惭愧,当受邀编这本《三十年集》的时候,想到的第一个词,居然是“囊中羞涩”。之所以如此,事后想想,大概有些原因。首先,我这三十年虽然风风雨雨一路走来,却从来不算是时代弄潮儿,只有总在潮流中的人,才可能在文字中呈现这三十年的中国风景,而自己从事的是古代历史、宗教和思想领域的研究,那毕竟只是一个远离波涛的 Ashamed to say, when invited to compile this “thirty years set”, the first word I think of, is actually “cash-strapped ”. The reason why, think about it afterwards, probably for some reasons. First of all, though my ups and downs over the past 30 years have never been time-governed by the ups and downs, only those who are always in the trend will be able to present these three decades of Chinese landscape in their writings. However, they are engaged in the ancient History, religion and ideological field of study, after all, it is only a far away from the waves