Perhaps the first observation that needs to be made here is that when the insults scattered throughout the book are seen in the context of what the work is trying to achieve as a whole, it becomes evident that their function is partly to work a kind of catharsis of the humiliation that China has suffered over the last 150 years.
首先值得注意的是，散佈全書對外國人的辱罵，證明瞭本書的目的，是在於宣「瀉」一百五十年來中國所遭到的屈辱。