“We must make [the Honour School of Chinese] sufficiently broad and humane to satisfy those whose interests are not narrowly philological […] by presenting Chinese literature as a part of our total human heritage; [and] we must always insist that the Honour School should be based on the study of literature.”

—  David Hawkes (sinologist)

Source: Inaugural Lecture, Oxford, 1961, p. 27

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