Therefore, he and Professor Ptak insist that students in the Chinese department learn traditional characters which give them direct access to the Chinese classics in their original form. From a sinologist's perspective, a familiarity with traditional characters is a basic prerequisite for engaging in scholarly work.
因此，他和譚克教授一樣，堅持漢學系學生一定要學正體字，才能直接接觸、了解原始經典；若以漢學家的角度來看，這是作學問的必要條件。