When Japanese scholars now go to China for fieldwork they're subject to many restrictions and cannot travel so freely as before, but the Chinese can't necessarily go to those areas either, and there are even more limitations on what they can publish.
當然我個人也景仰中國的藝術，所以這兩方面的因素都有。問：您剛才提到中國的廣闊性和連續性，能不能請您從歷史地理學的角度再深談？答：中國幅員廣大，各個地方風土、習慣都不一樣，為什麼能成為一個統一的國家，並有悠久的延續？