Just as 19th century Gothic and neo-Classical styles are both the products of imagining a world distant in time, so chinoiserie is produced by the imagination of a world remote in space.
就像十九世紀哥德式風格在歐洲復興，兩者都是對一個「遙遠」世界的幻想，只不過前者指的是距離，後者則是時間。