This business class was, of course, primarily interested in making profits, but its members also began to absorb a more international perspective, taking on jobs that grafted Western techniques onto Eastern traditions.
這些華人紳商階級固然唯利是圖，但自然地習染了一定的國際視野，在某種程度上，擔任了東方傳統和西歐技術接枝的工作。