"I suspect that many of us studying East Asian industrialization know how Charlie Chaplin's comic figure felt when facing the industrial machinery in the film Modern Times," is how Ezra Vogel, professor of sociology at Harvard University, describes the unfamiliarity felt by Westerners towards the East.
「我想，很多研究東亞工業化的人能夠體會卓別林電影『摩登時代』中，主人翁乍見現代機器的感受」，美國研究現代東亞的先鋒之一、哈佛大學社會系教授傅高義以此說明西方對東方的陌生。