Under the name of the royal architect and dedicating his book to the king, Chambers described the China he had seen in such a way as to present it as a land of wailing ghosts and spirits.
錢柏斯以御用建築師之名，將此書獻給英王，卻在其中把曾經「眼見為信」的中國園林，形容成一個鬼哭神號之地。