當年，他們第一次來中國

????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（Princeton）東亞研究教授。“我錯得不能再錯。令我有點困惑的是，我在上世紀六十年代認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《信報財經新聞》（Hong Kong Economic Journal）網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?斯卡拉皮諾已經去世，他們的文章沒有收錄在書中。據我所知，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）

????譯者：千牛絮

????"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.