B: Up to that time Chinese studies had been built up after the experience of the war, when a lack of personnel equipped with oriental languages was sorely needed. Then in the early 1980s the government cut support for universities, although it had started before that.
答：這要先由大環境講起，由於二次大戰間英國在太平洋戰區遭到語言人才奇缺的挫折，戰後政府痛定思痛，決定以國家基金支持東方語言課程。