Porcelain's road to the West was a long and tortuous one. But who could have guessed that in the end it would make all the Chinese into self-doubting Lin Qinnans, and most Westerners into overbearing Robinson Crusoes?
迢迢陶瓷路，走來既遠且長，不想最後卻讓中國人都成了「林琴南」，西方人多成了「魯賓遜」。