"People easily confuse Chinese export art with chinoiserie. For me it is important to make a distinction," he explains. What Europeans call chinoiserie is, in fact, in the eye of the beholder and includes anything that an artist or consumer considers to have a relationship with "the Orient."
「一般人很容易把中國外銷藝術與新華色悅混為一談，我認為釐清其間界限是很重要的」，柯博士表示，歐洲人所謂的「新華色悅」實則是一種主觀的認定，任何歐洲製造者或消費者認為與「東方」有關的東西都算數。