学贯中西、成就卓著的叶公超,擅长书法、绘画,又是著名的新月派作家和文艺评论家。他先后在清华、北大及西南联大任教,钱锺书、季羡林等人都曾受过他的指点。一场毛公鼎风波,迫使他弃学从政,步入外交界,被友人叹为“时代的错误”。历经多姿多彩的学者生涯、春风得意的官场生活和被逐出政坛的平淡岁月,晚年叶公超喟叹自己是“悲剧的主角”。 Ye Gongchao, who excelled both in Chinese and Western cultures, excelled in calligraphy and painting. He is also known as a crescentist and literary critic. He has successively taught at Tsinghua University, Peking University and the Southwest United University, and Qian Zhongshu and Ji Xianlin have all received his advice. A Mao Gongding storm, forcing him to abandon his studies politics, into the diplomatic community, was sigh friends “mistake of the times ”. After a colorful scholar career, proud of the popular life of the officialdom and was expelled from the political arena of the plain years, Ye Gongchao hesitated in his later years is “the protagonist of the tragedy.”