Whereas simplified characters have a history of a few decades, Chinese culture has a history of thousands of years. Most international research in sinology focuses on the history that preceded the invention of simplified characters. "
再說，簡體字只有幾十年歷史，中華文化卻有幾千年歷史，絕大部分國際漢學的研究議題，探討的都是簡體字發明之前的歷史，所有原始第一手的史料都以正體書寫。