1993年 ,我和林天蔚教授相识于台北。那一年的 1 1月上旬 ,我应台湾淡江大学之邀 ,赴台参加第一届“2 1世纪海峡两岸高等教育学术研讨会”。会后 ,又到台北的几所大学作学术报告。中旬的某一天 ,我应政治大学历史系的邀请 ,向该系师生作有关北洋军阀史的学术报告。在报告结束后 In 1993, I met Professor Lin Tianyu in Taipei. In early January of that year, at the invitation of Taiwan’s Tamkang University, I went to Taiwan to attend the first “Symposium on Higher Education in the 21st Century Cross-Strait” in Taiwan. After the meeting, they went to several universities in Taipei for academic reports. One day in the middle of the day, at the invitation of the Department of History at the Political Science University, I made an academic report on the history of the Northern Warlords to those teachers and students. After the report is over