No matter whether one talks about the works produced by Sinologists, Communist International activists, or reporters with experience in China, as far as today's scholars are concerned, "they have historical value, but no scholarly value."
不論是當時的漢學家、共產國際分子或只是具中國經驗的記者發表的著作，在今天的學者看來，是「有歷史價值，沒有學術價值」。