Lin Huai-min points out that all cultural development in China over the past hundred years has vacillated between traditional and modern, Chinese and Western, trying to find what it is that belongs to "modern China."
林懷民指出，中國近百年來的各項文化發展，都在傳統與現代、中國與西方間掙扎徘徊，試圖找出屬於「現代中國」的樣貌。