梁思成、林徽因與費(fèi)正清、費(fèi)慰梅在北總布胡同梁家客廳

2021年12月2日，北京時(shí)間晚21:00（美國(guó)東部早8:00），霍莉·費(fèi)爾班克（Holly Fairbank）家藏資料捐贈(zèng)儀式在線上舉行。參與見(jiàn)證這一儀式的嘉賓包括：清華大學(xué)楊斌副校長(zhǎng)；費(fèi)正清、費(fèi)慰梅之女霍莉·費(fèi)爾班克女士，梁思成之女梁再冰女士，梁思成之孫于葵女士，校友代表奚樹(shù)祥先生，波士頓美術(shù)館策展人南希·波琳娜（Nancy Berliner）女士，校友代表、路易斯維爾大學(xué)賴德霖；清華大學(xué)建筑學(xué)院原黨委書(shū)記左川，院長(zhǎng)張利，院黨委書(shū)記張悅，副院長(zhǎng)劉健，中國(guó)營(yíng)造學(xué)社紀(jì)念館館長(zhǎng)劉暢，副館長(zhǎng)王南，院助理教授荷雅麗等等。捐贈(zèng)儀式由劉健教授主持。

December 2, 2021, was a very special day for the Tsinghua University School of Architecture: Holly Fairbank, Adjunct Professor at the Teacher Education Departments of Hunter College (CUNY) in New York and daughter of Liang Sicheng’s old friends and China-connoisseurs John and Wilma Fairbank, donated precious historical material about Liang and his wife, Lin Huiyin, to the School of Architecture. Tsinghua University Vice-President and Provost Yang Bin presided over the virtual ZOOM meeting that was held in English and chaired by the School of Architecture Vice-Dean Liu Jian. The School’s Dean Zhang Li, the School’s Faculty Council Chairman Zhang Yue, and the Director of the School’s Museum of the Society for Research in Chinese Architecture Liu Chang participated in the ceremony; also present were the Professor Emeritus Zuo Chuan and other faculty members (like Alexandra Harrer) as well as Wang Hui from the International Affairs Office of Tsinghua University. The Liang family was represented by Liang’s daughter Liang Zaibing and his granddaughter Karol Yu (Yu Kui). Among the distinguished guests were the two Tsinghua School of Architecture alumni Xi Shuxiang (class of 1952) and Lai Delin (class of 1980), and the Wu Tung Senior Curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Nancy Berliner.

儀式首先由楊斌副校長(zhǎng)致辭。楊斌副校長(zhǎng)表示，梁家與費(fèi)家之間的友誼不僅成為了歷史中一段傳奇，更是中美學(xué)術(shù)交流的寶貴財(cái)富。2021年是梁思成誕辰120周年，同時(shí)也是清華大學(xué)建校110周年、建筑學(xué)院建院75周年，清華大學(xué)建筑學(xué)院與清華藝術(shù)博物館合作策劃了題為《棟梁》的紀(jì)念文獻(xiàn)展，自8月10日開(kāi)展至今，備受公眾矚目，已成為最具參觀價(jià)值的展覽之一。楊斌副校長(zhǎng)隨后回顧了梁思成與清華建筑的歷史，并表達(dá)了能夠與梁費(fèi)兩家年輕一代人結(jié)識(shí)的榮幸。

Yang Bin pointed to the historical significance of the year 2021 when Tsinghua University celebrated not only the 110th anniversary of its establishment and the 75th anniversary of the founding of the School of Architecture, but also the 120th anniversary of Liang Sicheng’s birth. In his honor, Tsinghua University staged a series of activities such as the Tsinghua Art Museum exhibition titled “Liang, the Overarching” that had drawn lots of attention since its opening on August 10.

楊斌副校長(zhǎng)致辭

其后，由捐贈(zèng)人霍莉·費(fèi)爾班克女士對(duì)捐贈(zèng)的背景進(jìn)行介紹。費(fèi)爾班克女士回憶了她童年時(shí)的記憶，通過(guò)母親費(fèi)慰梅女士的著作和信件“結(jié)識(shí)”了父母來(lái)自中國(guó)的朋友梁思成與林徽因。她同時(shí)對(duì)波琳娜女士在整理文獻(xiàn)時(shí)所提供的幫助表示感謝。此次捐贈(zèng)的文物可以追溯到1930年代，其中包括歷史照片（復(fù)制品），由費(fèi)慰梅親筆繪制的林徽因肖像手稿（復(fù)制品），一些與梁思成研究相關(guān)的著作，以及梁思成早期與建筑學(xué)研究相關(guān)的發(fā)表文章等等。費(fèi)爾班克女士動(dòng)情地說(shuō)，她的父母從未有一刻忘卻他們與梁思成、林徽因之間的友情，而自己很榮幸地能夠在今天將這些內(nèi)容傳遞給更多的人。

Holly Fairbank then explained how she found the historical material by accident in her family’s home in New Hampshire. While emphasizing her and her sister’s willingness to make another donation in the future, she explained that this donation would consist of: eight volumes of the Journal of the Society for Research of Chinese Architecture (Zhongguo Yingzao Xueshe) that were published from 1933 to 1946 and included the very valuable, hard-to-find volume 7; several first editions of books written by the First and Second Generations of Chinese architectural historians; and three old photographs of the Fairbank couple with Lin Huiyin. Holly’s mother Wilma met Liang and Lin two months after her wedding with John in the 1930s; back then, Wilma was not aware that years of close friendship would lay ahead. To Holly, memorizing her mother meant memorizing the friendship between her family and the Liang family.

Holly Fairbank女士介紹捐贈(zèng)內(nèi)容

作為梁家代表，梁再冰女士首先對(duì)清華大學(xué)為紀(jì)念梁思成誕辰120周年所組織的一系列活動(dòng)表示感激。她認(rèn)為，展覽的策劃完全符合她的期待，向人們完整展示了梁思成一生所做的工作。在這樣一個(gè)特殊時(shí)刻，能有機(jī)會(huì)見(jiàn)到父親較完整的資料記錄，自己印象中文質(zhì)彬彬、風(fēng)趣幽默的父親的形象也在記憶中變得更加深刻。梁再冰女士還回憶了童年時(shí)期，在西遷路上給費(fèi)姨寫(xiě)信的故事，并由衷感謝在戰(zhàn)亂中受到費(fèi)家的諸多幫助，特別是他們?cè)凇秷D像中國(guó)建筑史》出版中的無(wú)私付出。

Next, Karol Yu spoke on behalf of her mother Liang Zaibing. The health condition did not yet allow her mother to visit the Liang exhibition, but she expressed her delight in the fact that Tsinghua honored her deceased father who had passed away almost half a century ago. And yet, for her, he would forever remain the humorous and energetic young man with black hair who endured many hardships especially during his wartime stay in Lizhuang, Yunnan province, while making a great contribution to the field of architecture and to Tsinghua.  

梁再冰女士與其女于葵發(fā)表感言

其后，張利院長(zhǎng)代表清華大學(xué)建筑學(xué)院對(duì)費(fèi)家與梁家表達(dá)了感激。張?jiān)洪L(zhǎng)表示，在梁思成先生120周年誕辰這一特殊時(shí)間，正是追憶、學(xué)習(xí)、紀(jì)念梁先生的重要契機(jī)。梁費(fèi)兩個(gè)家族之間的交往，彰顯了人與人之間的真誠(chéng)、善良與友誼的光輝。費(fèi)爾班克女士在此捐贈(zèng)的資料，是對(duì)近現(xiàn)代建筑史研究貢獻(xiàn)的珍貴一手資料。張?jiān)洪L(zhǎng)最后強(qiáng)調(diào)，梁思成、林徽因與費(fèi)正清、費(fèi)慰梅作為學(xué)者對(duì)建筑的熱忱與追求，仍不斷啟發(fā)著當(dāng)代的建筑學(xué)人，激勵(lì)著我們砥礪前行。

Zhang Li elaborated the significance of the Liang exhibition for the School of Architecture, and explained how the new donation would fit into this picture: the donation would not only serve to continue to honor the memory of Liang as the School’s founding father; it would also provide another opportunity to review and rethink the contribution of the two families who defined the first framework of the Chinese architectural discourse, upon which the current generation is still drawing. The books and photos would be a key addition to the School’s archives, providing prominent evidence from which students and scholars could extract their own identity and memory.

張利院長(zhǎng)代表建筑學(xué)院致辭

隨后，由清華大學(xué)建筑學(xué)院建筑歷史與文物建筑保護(hù)研究所所長(zhǎng)、中國(guó)營(yíng)造學(xué)社紀(jì)念館館長(zhǎng)劉暢教授為與會(huì)嘉賓“棟梁”展的情況以及中國(guó)營(yíng)造學(xué)社紀(jì)念館的文物保管狀況進(jìn)行了簡(jiǎn)要介紹。“棟梁”展的介紹包括了展廳形象、代表性實(shí)物展品與代表性文獻(xiàn)手稿；文物保管情況包括了中國(guó)營(yíng)造學(xué)社紀(jì)念館新館室內(nèi)布局、館藏情況，以及與故宮博物院合作建立的文物保護(hù)團(tuán)隊(duì)等內(nèi)容。

Liu Chang further explained how the School’s Museum of the Society for Research in Chinese Architecture would preserve the books and photos just donated by the Fairbank family. The Society’s Museum is a new addition to the School of Architecture located on the second floor of the new school building and has two floors for exhibition and a third floor for conservation treatment. Just like the exhibition at the Tsinghua Art Museum, the School’s Society Museum also aims at educating a younger generation about Liang as an architect, historian, and educator and as a person. The Liang exhibition, for example, displays several objects that Liang collected as teaching tools while traveling through different provinces, including a lovely Han-dynasty clay pig.

劉暢教授介紹“棟梁”展與文物保管情況

接下來(lái)，在劉健教授的主持下，波琳娜女士與校友代表奚樹(shù)祥先生、賴德霖教授分別發(fā)表了個(gè)人感言。波琳娜女士表示，費(fèi)與梁林之間不僅建立了友誼的橋梁，更架起了文化交流的橋梁，這是最令她感到珍貴的，她期待未來(lái)還能夠與中國(guó)同仁一起進(jìn)行學(xué)術(shù)研究，延續(xù)費(fèi)與梁的工作。奚樹(shù)祥先生表示，曾做梁先生的助理的自己，在美國(guó)時(shí)也得到費(fèi)教授的照顧和幫助，自己可謂是中美民間友誼的見(jiàn)證人，他在88歲時(shí)捐出了自己所有的財(cái)產(chǎn)，也正是為了鼓勵(lì)下一代能夠沖破政治的藩籬，將這種友誼延續(xù)下去。他認(rèn)為費(fèi)爾班克女士的捐贈(zèng)同樣具有這一重要意義。賴德霖教授表示，盡管自己并未有機(jī)會(huì)受到梁先生與林先生的直接教導(dǎo)，但他將他們視為自己的人生榜樣，在參與整理編寫(xiě)《梁思成文集》的過(guò)程中受益頗多，并將這本著作一直帶在身邊。他感謝費(fèi)爾班克女士曾接受自己的拜訪，使自己得以有幸見(jiàn)到存放在菲利普?qǐng)D書(shū)館（Philip Library）中珍藏的書(shū)信，這些也是梁費(fèi)友情的重要見(jiàn)證。

This was followed by comments and feedback from other participants: First, Nancy Berliner who had been instrumental in helping sorting the donated material stressed her role as a mediator and connecting link between the Fairbank and Liang families and also between the American and Chinese cultures. She pointed to the fact that she, like many other American colleagues, would share the sadness of being separated from her/their friends with the two couples, back then because of the wartime and now because of the global pandemic; yet today, we would have the means to overcome the temporal and spatial obstacles and reunite virtually. Next, Xi Shuxiang explained the history of friendship between the two families as part of the two-hundred-year-long history of Sino-American civil relations that had started with the involvement of American church organizations in rural China. Xi, who had been Liang’s assistant from 1959 to 1961, went to the United States in the 1980s where he worked closely with Wilma on the publication of Liang’s book A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture. At the age of 88, Xi further contributed to the bilateral friendship between the two countries, donating his wealth to establish the Liang-Fairbank study program at Tsinghua University School of Architecture. Finally, belonging to a younger generation than Xi, Lai Delin had never met Liang and Lin in person but continued the friendship between the two families through his academic work as a researcher of Chinese architectural historiography and professor at the University of Louisville Fine Arts Department. Lai worked as a translator and editor for  Wilma and Holly, greatly contributing to the publication of many books on Liang.

從左至右：南希·波琳娜女士，奚樹(shù)祥先生，賴德霖教授

最后，由費(fèi)爾班克女士作結(jié)束致辭，再次表達(dá)了對(duì)此次活動(dòng)的感動(dòng)與感謝。劉健教授也對(duì)費(fèi)爾班克女士來(lái)訪清華大學(xué)建筑學(xué)院和中國(guó)營(yíng)造學(xué)社表示了熱切歡迎。

In summary, the donation further demonstrated that Liang Sicheng, his wife, his colleagues, and his friends were not forgotten. The donation ceremony was another step on the path towards friendship development: not only furthering the friendship between the families of Liang Sicheng and Wilma Fairbank, but also fostering the friendship between the Chinese and American nations and people.

劉健教授主持儀式

與會(huì)嘉賓在線合影

捐贈(zèng)背景介紹

我院創(chuàng)始人梁思成、林徽因夫婦和他們的故交費(fèi)正清、費(fèi)慰梅夫婦長(zhǎng)期以來(lái)保持這書(shū)信往來(lái)和資料共享。日前，費(fèi)氏夫婦女兒霍莉·費(fèi)爾班克和勞拉·費(fèi)爾班克在整理家藏舊物時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)一批與梁思成、林徽因先生相關(guān)書(shū)籍和影像資料。

其中主要包括：

• 《中國(guó)營(yíng)造學(xué)社匯刊》，1933年至1946年間的八本刊物，其中出版于1946年的第七卷第一期為學(xué)社最艱苦時(shí)期的力作，印數(shù)稀少，罕有存世，具備極高的史料價(jià)值；

• 費(fèi)慰梅女士近40年來(lái)陸續(xù)收到的來(lái)自中國(guó)的紀(jì)念梁思成、劉敦楨先生的刊物；

• 費(fèi)慰梅女士近40年來(lái)收到的美國(guó)學(xué)者關(guān)于中國(guó)建筑歷史的著作，1本；

• 三張費(fèi)氏夫婦、林徽因先生的舊照（復(fù)制品）。

得知今年我院為主開(kāi)展的紀(jì)念梁思成先生的系列活動(dòng)，霍莉·費(fèi)爾班克女士通過(guò)美國(guó)波士頓美術(shù)館南?！げ漳扰柯?lián)系了建筑學(xué)院“中國(guó)營(yíng)造學(xué)社紀(jì)念館”，希望將上述歷史資料捐獻(xiàn)，并妥善保存于該紀(jì)念館。

捐贈(zèng)人介紹

霍莉·費(fèi)爾班克（Holly C. Fairbank），費(fèi)正清、費(fèi)慰梅之女，瑪克辛-格林美學(xué)教育與社會(huì)想象力研究所執(zhí)行主任，藝術(shù)教育中心顧問(wèn)，編舞家、舞蹈家和Holly Fairbank & Dancers的藝術(shù)總監(jiān)。1979-1989年間，曾獲國(guó)際藝術(shù)組織、國(guó)家藝術(shù)基金會(huì)、紐約州藝術(shù)委員會(huì)、舞蹈劇院工作室等的資助和委托。她還是一位舞蹈教學(xué)藝術(shù)家和舞蹈教育家，并擔(dān)任紐約市南丁格爾-班福德學(xué)校和康涅狄格州格林威治圣心學(xué)校的舞蹈系系主任。

擁有莎拉-勞倫斯學(xué)院的學(xué)士學(xué)位和紐約大學(xué)的舞蹈教育碩士學(xué)位，費(fèi)爾班克女士曾在夏威夷大學(xué)、香港演藝中心、廣州舞蹈學(xué)院、北京舞蹈學(xué)院擔(dān)任客座教授。她曾為《舞蹈》《中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)》和《人類運(yùn)動(dòng)學(xué)研究》撰稿。她的著作《中國(guó)少數(shù)民族舞蹈的采集、保護(hù)與傳播：20世紀(jì)80年代初期的一項(xiàng)社會(huì)人類學(xué)調(diào)研》已被翻譯為中文，并由云南大學(xué)出版社出版。

中文撰稿：龐凌波

English Writer: Alexandra Harrer

英文校核：劉健