A: In researching changes in the description of the characters Fu-hsi and Nu-wa from ancient times to K'ai-p'i yen-yi, the sixteenth century Ming novel about creation, I discovered that Chinese literature has a very clear development and continuity that other literatures lack. For example, contemporary Egyptian and Greek literature has nothing to do with the classical literatures of those countries.
答：我研究古代伏羲、女媧到十六世紀明朝的「開闢演義」當中一些人物描寫的演變。我發現，中國文學有很清楚又連貫的發展脈絡，這是別的文化缺乏的，比如當代的埃及、希臘文學可以說和古埃及、希臘文學已完全無關。