The Britain that was on the rise to glory just at the time of the Kang Xi emperor could quite feasibly look back with admiration to the teaching of ancient Rome, and could accept the influence of French and Italian painting. Why could it not have learned a bit from China, the economic and cultural great power of that time?
相當於康熙盛世時期的十八世紀英國，既可以遠慕古羅馬的教化，又可以近受法國、義大利畫家的影響，為什麼偏就「不」可以有當時經濟與文化大國的一絲點化？