Its 19th-century vocabulary of races and nations leaves the reader feeling that alternative visions of globalization and international cooperation are still ideas that may be hard to give positive meaning to in the political discourse of mainland China.
書中對於種族、國家之類的十九世紀語彙的用法，不免讓人覺得，全球化與國際合作的另類觀點，或許仍然很難在中國大陸的政治論域中，得到正面的看法。