In 1962 I graduated from the Far Eastern Department of SOAS but had to money to do research work. There were grants available in the Social Sciences and Anthropology so I applied to do fieldwork in the New Territories on a London-Cornell joint programme.
我在一九六二年從倫敦大學亞非學院遠東系畢業，畢業後沒有錢做中國文學研究工作，而當時社會學、人類學有很多獎學金，我申請到一個倫敦大學和美國康乃爾大學的合作計畫，到新界作田野工作。