《在中国漫长的古道上》是我多年前和一位同事翻译的一部西部考察游记,作者是美国人兰登·华尔纳。兰登·华尔纳在中国最出名的事,就是曾两次带领美国哈佛大学福格艺术博物馆考察队,到中国西北地区进行考察和挖掘。第一次考察是1923年7月至1924年4月间,华尔纳用化学胶水揭去了十几方敦煌莫高窟壁画中的精美片断,并贿赂王道士,携走唐代 “On the Long Road in China,” a travelogue of western China that I translated with a colleague many years ago, was written by American Landon Warner. Landon Wallner’s most famous thing in China is that he has led the Fogaux Art Museum expedition team at Harvard University in the United States twice to study and excavate in northwestern China. The first visit was from July 1923 to April 1924, and Warner uncovered the exquisite pieces in the frescoes of more than a dozen Fang Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes with chemical glue and bribed the priests to carry the Tang Dynasty