More and more people in academic circles in the West have come to realize this in recent years, such as Piet van der Loon in Oxford and Jacques Gernet in France, who are both first-rate scholars.
近年來歐美學術界有這種體認的人愈來愈多，像英國牛津的龍彼得教授、法國的謝和耐教授等，都是一流的學者。