辛亥革命百年纪念很快就要到了,这让我回想起半个世纪之前境内首次纪念辛亥革命的前后情形。1954年秋冬之交,民主德国(即东德)历史学家贝喜发博士专程前来武汉搜集辛亥革命史料,外事部门邀请武汉大学历史系姚薇元、汪诒荪两位教授和我出面接待。在贝喜发短暂的逗留期间,除学者 Commemorating the centenary of the Revolution of 1911, which soon came to my mind, reminded me of the first time in the territory of the Revolution of 1911 that was commemorated half a century ago. At the turn of autumn and winter 1954, Dr Beihai, a historian of the German Democratic Republic (ie, the East Germany) made a special trip to come to Wuhan to collect the historical materials of the 1911 Revolution. The Foreign Affairs Department invited Yao Weiyuan and Wang 诒 un, two professors from the Department of History of Wuhan University, to come forward for their reception. During the brief stay at Bexley, except for scholars