"Foreigners have one advantage in studying China: they aren't shackled by traditional concepts, and they have a broader, more open perspective," says Lu Ch'ing-pin, a scholar who is researching p'ai-hsi, a card game, from the Ming dynasty.
「外國人研究漢學還有一個好處：他們沒有傳統觀念的束縛，視野比較寬闊，也比較自由」，正在研究已失傳的明代文人牌戲（穀牌，又稱馬吊）的盧慶濱以自己為例子指出，「牌戲在中國是玩物喪志，那還值得費心考證？