And I kept translating Hung-lou meng. It was very laborious. I was isolated, and my doings were watched by the state police. It was even hard to obtain reference materials that friends of mine tried to get for me.
當時我繼續翻譯紅樓夢，這是一項極其艱苦的工作，因為被孤立，與人的往來都受到國家警察嚴密監視，不但去中國訪問不可能，連朋友為我設法蒐集的參考資料都不容易取得。