Old friend George said my photo recently taken on Mother's Day looks very good.  He doesn't think I have aged much since he saw me many years ago.  Just for fun now I am wearing a mustache, and that's the difference. As in my memory I was impressed by two Hollywood stars in their movies in late 1930s and early 1940s. One was Clark Gable. The classic film "Gone with the Wind" starred him as  Rhett Butler; another one was Errol Flynn. The swordsmen  film  "Adventures of Robin Hood" starred Errol as the legendary hero Robin. They both wore mustache. And I felt they didn't look much older than they were. For comparison I spent my time to look up the old photos taken in the past years and see if my complexions have changed.  Most significant of all was these pictures indicated the tracks of my life I have followed year after year since the reform and opening policy was implemented. I would like to use the photos to explain the successes of my life that came from a petty past and I think I have been  right on the tracks of it. Hereby I wrote some notes to the pictures that indicated the points worth making.

photo taken in 1968 during the period of cultural revolution
 

UC Berkeley   MA in political science
 

UC Berkeley  graduation
 

Capitol Hill
 

California

 
Boston
 

Notre Dame
 

La Basilique du Sacre Coeur de Montmartre

 
Sphinx
 

Egypt
 

Venice
 

1993

 
1992
 

1994
 

2009
 

2009  Mother' Day
 

NCSU  Fulbright Professor
 

my professor Scalapino in Beijing