It is in addressing this problem that some of the fundamental themes that have plagued Chinese thinkers about their place in international society and their attitude to modernity over the past century-and-a-half raise their head.
在提出這個問題的時候，一百五十年來困擾了多少中國思想家的幾個根本議題：中國在國際社會的地位，以及面對現代性的態度，也就跟著浮現出來了。