"You see there was no such thing as a workshop that only made things for export," he explains, "because the Europeans were only there from December to about March. For the rest of the time they were at sea." The rest of the year the workshops in China must have been making things for the domestic market as well, which led to a kind of cross-fertilization.
「當年廣東並沒有專供外銷的工廠，因為歐洲人每年大約只在十二月到三月之間乘風而來，其餘時間都在海上」，他指出，這時候工廠也製造內銷貨，其間必然造成某種文化交錯。