第五幕(1994):同流合污,上了电视那个季度的调查没有像我预期的那样从1994年1月启动。四川省民族研究所拒绝向我发邀请。他们觉得我到那时还没有兑现我应该做的礼尚往来:既没争取到大笔资助,也没把所长们弄到美国交流一番。我那些做中国研究的美国同行听说此事,虽不感意外却都 Act V (1994): Dissatisfaction with the TV The quarterly survey was not launched as scheduled from January 1994, as I expected. Sichuan Institute of Ethnology refused to send an invitation to me. They thought that by that time I had not fulfilled the same courtesy I deserved: neither won a large sum of money, nor did I get the directors to exchange information with the United States. My American counterparts who did research in China heard of this incident, though I did not care about it