Publisher's Synopsis
I became interested in Mr Liang's life and career as a graduate student at Harvard University and took it as a subject of my Phd dissertation. I gathered materials in Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as sought out and interviewed many of his old friends and acquaintances. Because of Sino-American politics I could not go to mainland China until 1973. However, I did not meet Mr Liang until a visit in 1980 where I interviewed him every morning for two weeks. This interview brings together the special characteristic ability of the Chinese intellectuals to blend mutually contradictory thought. In this instance it is the blending of the thoughts of Buddhism and Confucianism and also identify with Marxist-Leninist thought and approve of Christianity.
