Nevertheless, at the height of British imperialism, the country could afford no more than five professors of Chinese--a number it has never achieved since. Q: The general image of Chinese collections in Britain is very bountiful, especially the Tunhuang collection at the British Library.
問：在一般人的印象裡，英國的中文藏書和資料相當豐富珍貴，比方說大英的敦煌手卷、牛津的明清善本書。這些珍藏應該相當能刺激漢學研究吧？