女士们、先生们:来到了学生时代梦想的这片土地上,我感到非常高兴。早在50年代初,作为当时伦敦大学一名未毕业的学生,我曾被指派准备一篇论述费孝通博士的专著——《江村经济》的论文。虽然这本书早在1939年就已问世,但它关于长江流域中国农村生活模式的论述给我留下了深刻的印象。读了这本书,吸引我的是该地区农村经济结构基础的形成:作为生 Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very happy to come to this land of dreams in the student age. As early as the early 1950s, as a non-graduate student at the University of London at the time, I was assigned to prepare an essay on Dr. Fisher’s monograph entitled “The Village Economy.” Although this book was published as early as 1939, I was deeply impressed with its discussion of the rural life style in the Yangtze River Valley in China. Having read this book, what fascinated me was the formation of the basis of rural economic structure in the region: as a student