H: Needham first raised the question of my taking over early in 1986, when I was in Hong Kong. We had collaborated for so many years and it was an offer I could not refuse. So I resigned my university posts and became director at the beginning of 1990.
答：早在一九八六年我在香港時，李約瑟就向我提及接任的事，我們合作多年，這在我是義不容辭的事，所以我結束香港職務，也向澳洲大學辭職後，在九○年初正式接任所長。