When Professor Timothy Barrett of the History Department at SOAS recently tried to trace the roots of the tradition of British sinology, he could only describe the results of his informal research as shocking and surprising. It seems that the British have never, in fact, seriously supported the study of China.
亞非學院歷史宗教授提摩太．百若（Prof．Timothy Barrett）近來試圖上溯歷史、正本清源，找出英國漢學傳統的真實面貌。他形容這個非正式研究的結果令人「相當震驚」，因為百年來英國似乎從來沒有正視過漢學研究。