我认识茅盾是从他的著作《子夜》开始的，那是四十年代初，我在海外菲律宾，参加党的外围组织和地下读书会的活动，和一般青年秘密学习进步的书籍，其中就着重学习和讨论了茅盾的名著《子夜》。对于书的主人公吴荪甫和中国民族资产阶级的命运，中国社会的性质和革命力量，都进 I know Mao Dun started with his book, “Midnight,” a book that I learned secretly and progressively from the youth in the early 1940s when I was in the Philippines overseas, participated in the activities of the Party’s peripheral organizations and the underground reading society, and focused on Studying and discussing Mao Dun’s famous book “Midnight.” For the book’s protagonist Wu Sun-fu and the fate of the Chinese national bourgeoisie, the nature of Chinese society and the revolutionary forces, both into