Herbert Butterfield, took up his pen against the sinologists when one of them had dared to claim that "China cannot be excluded from the mainstream of history."
當時劍橋歷史教授 H. Butterfield 享譽歐美，卻為漢學家一句「中國不能被摒諸人類歷史的主流之外」而與之大打筆仗，其成見之深，可見一斑。