Western sinology has produced a number of erudite and influential scholars, but the name of only one is as well known to the general public as it is to the scholars of academe.
西方漢學界不乏滿腹經綸、影響深遠的鴻儒碩彥，但是有一位漢學家的名字，通常不出現在學院杏壇，卻在此間家喻戶曉。