When British power reached an unprecedented peak at the time of the Opium War, whether a weak and defenseless country like China could have influenced the creation of the English garden was an "obvious" matter.
鴉片戰爭以來，西方勢力達到前所未見的顛峰，而那個可殺可辱的孱弱國度，是否曾經影響英國園林的創發，已經是個「著毋庸議」的問題。