Paradise lost The challenge of this "closed" and "unchanging" place with the whiff of decay about it seems to have bestowed the right to add decorations to military displays and museums and for successive generations of China experts to wield the magic wand for imposing order.
向這個「封閉頑固」、「停滯不變」，好像還聞得出一點黴味的意象挑戰，於是像一根護法金箍棒，點化出英國鄉間軍區陳列室裡成列成行、閃閃發光的戰功勳章、提供了歐洲博物館裡的中國收藏，又成就了多少中國專家的等身著作！