Professor Leonard Blusse of Leiden University's History Department thinks that the critic Hugh Honour has arrived at the best conclusion concerning the nature of chinoiserie. Honour says that actually chinoiserie is a kind of European art style rather than an artistic attempt to emulate Chinese models as some sinologists assume.
荷蘭萊頓大學歷史系教授包樂史（Prof. Lenard Blusse）認為，在諸多評論中，藝評家休．歐諾（HughHonour）說得最好﹘ ﹘「新華色悅」實則是一種歐洲藝術風格，而非一些漢學家所猜想的，是一種想模仿中國卻不成功的藝術手法。