之后日本侵略各国的事实帮助解释了另一件奇事:从很多方面看来,现在亚洲思想家间联系比千年前的思想家们的联络都苍白无力。
Japan 's later aggression helps explain the other surprise : that in many ways the links between Asian thinkers look more tenuous now than they did a century ago .