澳大利亚汉学家李瑞智之研究——中华传统思想文化的当代价值 图片: 作者与李瑞智先生合影 图片: 李瑞智先生讲授《道德经》 图片: 李瑞智先生在发表演讲 图片: 李瑞智先生和家人参加女儿的毕业典礼 Preface I I will never forget the first time, in 1966, that I opened a book of T’ang Dynasty poetry, with the original Chinese on the one page and an English translation on the facing page. I was only 14 at the time, and a cousin whom I idolized sent me the book from Taipei, China. He had been trained in Mandarin, and for me to read that book and, only slightly later, to hear him speak Mandarin with his Chinese w ife, set me off on a life-long love of Chinese culture. At university, I took every course offered in Chinese, Chinese and Japanese history, literature, and religion, graduating with approximately one half of my credit hours in what constituted an independent “Asian studies” ma…