His appeal and that of Chinese culture captivated me. I gave up British studies the next year and threw myself into the field of sinology and Far Eastern cultural history.
很快地，中國文化和布魯謝克教授這個人物的吸引力，使我一年後就放棄了大不列顛學，如癡如醉地投入了漢學及遠東文化史的領域。