Wilde, Oscar.
The rise of historical criticism. (Hartford : Privat Print, Sherwood Press, 1905).
http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/2309/.
Er schreibt : "The Chinese annals, ascending as they do to the barbarous forest life of the nation, are marked with a soberness of judgment, a freedom from invention, which is almost unparalleled in the writings of any people; but the protective spirit which is the characteristic of that people proved as fatal to their literature as to their commerce."