A: I was 24 then, and went to China as a special researcher on China for the cultural affairs department of the Foreign Affairs Ministry. In the first year I travelled to Shantung, Shansi, Inner Mongolia and the Yangtze Valley, and the second year I stayed in Peiping.
答：那一年我廿四歲，以外務省文化事業部在華特別研究員身分到大陸研究，第一年到過山東、山西、內蒙及長江流域，後一年則留在北平。