关于这方面,多年来已有不少学者的研究成果。除了在该书第一章里面主要引用的范存忠《中国文化在启蒙时期的英国》一书外,还有范存忠Dr.Johnson and Chinese Culture(London:The China Society,1945),钱钟书china in the English Literature of the Seventeenth Century,Quarterly Bulletin of Chinese Bibliography(New Series)Vol.1,1940;Vol.2,1941,陈受颐The,Influence of China on English Culture during the Eighteenth Century (芝加哥大学博士论文,1928),Williamw.Appelton,A Cycle of Cathy:The Chinese Vogue in England During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries(New York:Columbia University Press.1951)Edmund Leites,Confucianism in Eighteenth Century England:Natural Morality and Social Reform,Les rapports entre la Chinese et l’Europe au temps des Lumieres,Actes du lle Colloque Intemationale de Sinologie,(Paris,1980)等等。