The British mentality To say that the English of the first half of the eighteenth century － especially the influential intellectuals--had absolutely no knowledge of China in their brains is actually unsustainable.
兩世紀前的英國腦袋… … 要說十八世紀上半葉的英國人﹘﹘至少有影響力的知識份子，腦袋裡完全沒有中國知識，實在是說不過去的。