They had written more about what people in the West had thought and had not done anything to integrate Chinese export art with the history of Chinese art for the domestic Chinese market. It was even forgotten at times that these things were actually made in China.
人們只關心英國人或歐洲人如何看待它們，卻沒有從中國文化背景、中國外銷藝術的結構來看，甚至有時候根本忘了它們「是」中國製造的。