’97香港回归,全世界的中华子孙都感到无比欣慰。庆幸从今以后真正跻身于世界民族之林了,一个半世纪以来由中英鸦片战争带来的民族屈辱感,得以一扫而空。这时再去读一读老友爱泼斯坦所写的《从鸦片战争到解放》这本书,我觉得还是十分必要的。因为在这本书里,爱泼斯坦重温了中华民族濒临英、美、德、 ’97 Hong Kong’s return to China, the world’s Chinese children are very pleased. It is fortunate that China will truly become one of the nations in the world ever since. The sense of national humiliation brought by the Sino-British Opium War in a century and a half has been swept away. At this moment, it is still very necessary for me to read the book “From the Opium War to the Liberation” written by an older friend Epstein. Because in this book, Epstein revisits the Chinese nation on the verge of Britain, the United States, Germany,