????林克坦承：“1973年過后，我了解到了很多東西,，這才知道我在六十年代末從表面判斷毛澤東的‘社會主義’犯了多大的錯誤,。”他后來成為普林斯頓大學(xué)（Princeton）東亞研究教授,?！拔义e得不能再錯。令我有點困惑的是,，我在上世紀(jì)六十年代認(rèn)識的其他一些左派友人有時似乎不愿面對這個明顯的事實,。”

????《我的第一次中國之行》起源于香港《信報財經(jīng)新聞》（Hong Kong Economic Journal）網(wǎng)站上的一個每周系列專題,。劉建民在致謝時寫到,，這個專題的兩位撰稿人司徒華和羅伯特?斯卡拉皮諾已經(jīng)去世，他們的文章沒有收錄在書中,。據(jù)我所知,，第三位撰稿人理查德?鮑姆在劉建民完成編寫之后、該書出版之前也已經(jīng)去世,。劉建民在收集這些回憶文章方面做出了出色的工作,，并且恰逢其時,。（財富中文網(wǎng)）

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????"In the years since 1973 I have learned much, much more about how wrong I was in the late 1960s to take Mao Zedong's 'socialism' at face value," confesses Link, who later became a professor of East Asian studies at Princeton. "I could not have been more mistaken. I am a bit puzzled that others among my leftist friends from the 1960s sometimes seem reluctant to face this obvious fact."

????My First Trip to China originated in a weekly series on the website of the Hong Kong Economic Journal. As Liu notes in his acknowledgements, two contributors to that series whose essays were not included in the book -- Szeto Wah and Robert Scalapino -- have since died, A third that I know of, Richard Baum, died after Liu finished writing and before the book appeared. Liu has performed a great service in collecting these memories, and he's done it none too soon.