Good medicine, bitter taste? Chen Shou-yi was an expert on the history of communications between East and West. When Ho Chen-tsu, a late professor of architecture at Chengkung University who wrote a work on Chinese gardens in the 1960s, visited England and looked around with the eye of an architect, he concluded that Chambers "really understood Chinese gardens and architecture."
陳受頤是早年中西交通史的專家；另有已故成大教授賀陳詞，則在六○年代訪英時，以建築學者的眼光指出：錢柏斯在中國風格瀰漫的十八世紀英國，算是「真正懂得中國庭園與建築的人」。