We also found that history normally puts people off; especially because Chinese history is so complicated and foreigners have problems with the names of Chinese dynasties, people and places. Such tongue-twisting was not like finding common areas of experience between East and West, such as eating, drinking and wine.
如果照傳統方法來做，以歷史斷代或形制分期，往往教人興趣缺缺，尤其中國歷史更是複雜，外國人很難記得這麼多朝代名和人名地名，不如找些中西共通的經驗。