Western sinologists like Dudbridge and Schipper are renowned for their scholarship but diffident in the extreme. Schipper said they're only "learning about" Chinese culture and not really "researching" it.
事實上，西方漢學家如杜德橋、施博爾，實名重士林，卻謙抑有加；施博爾就表示他們只是「學習」中國文化，而不稱「研究」。