"If Western sinology has some significance, it's in cultural interchange," he said, responding to the question with the apt analogy of a gene bank (see page 119).
「如果要問西方的漢學者有什麼意義？只能說是文化交流」，施博爾且巧妙地以「植物基因庫」為例，來回答這個問題（見本期一一八頁）。