From China's standpoint, its early contacts with the West – and many of its later contacts as well – were both humiliating and disastrous, and served only to solidify hostility toward the “foreign devils,” while intensifying a sense of cultural superiorit
From China's standpoint, its early contacts with the West – and many of its later contacts as well – were both humiliating and disastrous, and served only to solidify hostility toward the “foreign devils,” while intensifying a sense of cultural superiorit
从中国的立场看来，它早期和西方的接触——以及后来与西方的多次接触——都给它带来了屈辱和灾难，这只能坚定他们对“洋鬼子”的仇恨，同时也加强了中国人自己在文化上的优越感。