佩兴斯·达尔顿是20世纪50年代受邀来中国工作的少数几位英国女性之一。近年新发现她的书信和文件,这为我们提供了难得的机会去了解外国女性眼中的北京生活(她曾被外文社聘用4年)。本文探讨她在她所处环境中作出如此戏剧性的改变背后的动机,并将她的经历置入当时语境之中。1937年西班牙内战期间,她身为一名拥有资质的护士,自愿报名加入国际纵队并到前线工作。西班牙共和国1939年的失败打击了她,为此,她伤心地与医疗队的其他许多同事前往中国寻找希望,并相信在中国可以建立起一个真正的社会主义社会。她于1954年抵达北京,又过了几个月之后她与前国际纵队成员艾瑞克·艾德尼结婚,并在1955年生下儿子。她在给其姐妹所写的书信中表现了她细致入微的观察。她以独特的眼光每天洞察她周围的环境,她收藏的其他文件与报告也表明了她对共产主义政治体制的同情以及中国官方是如何经受考验的。 Peyres Dalton was one of the few British women invited to work in China in the 1950s. The recent discovery of her correspondence and documents in recent years provided us with a unique opportunity to learn about the life of Beijing in the eyes of foreign women (she had been employed by a foreign language agency for four years). This article explores her motivation behind making such a dramatic change in her environment and places her experience in context. During the Spanish Civil War in 1937, as a qualified nurse, she volunteered to join the International Column and work on the front line. In the wake of the defeat of the Spanish Republic in 1939, she sadly sought the hope of many of her colleagues in the medical team in China and believed that a real socialist society could be established in China. She arrived in Beijing in 1954, and a few months later she married Eric Ardenney, a former member of the International Brigade, and gave birth to a son in 1955. Her nuanced observations were expressed in the letters she wrote to her sister. Her unique insight into the environment around her is daily, and her collection of other documents and reports shows her sympathy for the communist political system and how Chinese officials have been tested.