The only person who has really conducted in-depth research into this whole subject is the art historian Osvald Siren. His works do not really wield much influence, though, because "recent students of landscape gardening have tended to marginalize, if not completely ignore, the possibility of Chinese influence," explains the most quoted authority today, Hugh Honour.
真正對此議題作全面而深入研究的，只有已故瑞典藝術史家喜仁龍教授，而他的論述之所以沒有發生影響力，是「因為晚近的園林史學者，幾乎完全排除了中國影響的可能性」，在同樣議題中，至今最為廣泛引用的權威學者歐諾如此解釋。