Sinology was isolated from other academic disciplines, as Huang Chun-chieh, a professor of history at National Taiwan University, points out, and Chinese history was never linked with the historical development of the Western world as a whole.
台大歷史系教授黃俊傑就指出，當時西方的漢學研究是孤立在其他學術之外，從來沒有人把中國的歷史發展和整個西方世界的歷史發展聯想在一起。