Due to this rather conceited attitude that has lasted down to today, the mainland-Chinese architect Chen Zhihua decided to read through the works of the seventeenth and eighteenth century missionaries and check how they were disseminated.
大陸建築學者陳志華，就曾經為了西方學界的倨傲態度，遍讀十七、八世紀的傳教士文獻，考據其流傳程度。