Of course, the whole purpose of this recollection of the Sino-US love affair of the 1980s is to contrast it with the disillusion that followed as the students of the 1980s matured into the teachers, journalists and writers of the 1990s.
當然，重提這段八○年代中美之間的往日情懷，只是用來對照當年的學生在九○年代成為教師、記者，和作家之後，美國夢的幻滅。