Even someone like James Lilley, who was born in China and has spent a lifetime as a front-line diplomat in US-China relations, feels the temptation-the provisional first title of his memoirs referred to his experiences in Asia as an "odyssey."
即使如李潔明這樣出生中國、終身站在美中關係第一線的務實外交官，在書寫回憶錄時，最早自訂的標題仍是「一個美國人的奧德賽」。