Posts Tagged ‘Chinese’
“The Ugly Chinaman” for Chinese, and “The Ugly American” for American
Posted by: redlove on: July 6, 2009
“The Ugly Chinaman and the Crisis of Chinese Culture” is the English translation of Bo Yang’s “The Ugly Chinaman” in Chinese. This Taiwanese essayist “targeted his fellow Chinese, especially those living in Taiwan, who at the time were still lulled in the belief that Chinese culture was the best among all civilizations. While everyone acknowledged [...]
Multiculturalism is not just a European issue
Posted by: redlove on: August 2, 2008
- In: culture | Identity | Society
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Gloria Origgi, an Italian philosopher based in Paris, recently described the experience in Europe in “New Statesman” (June 23, 2008 ) as follows, “A new generation has grown up, of people born more than a quarter of a century after the end of the Second World War and now moving around Europe to study and [...]
Bird’s Nest & Twisted Donut
Posted by: redlove on: July 6, 2008
These days many architects’ creative projects were sprouting out in China. No matter what the architects’ original ideas were, they were renamed and interpreted in different ways. Herzog & de Meuron’s National Stadium is “Bird’s Nest” and Rem Koolhaas’s CCTV Tower is “Twisted Donut”. Another book called “Big Bang Beijing” by Hiromasa Shirai (白井宏昌) and [...]
The Skin Never Replaceable
Posted by: redlove on: November 14, 2007
“Confronted by a course that negated their culture, many failed to master the skills they sought. Others succeeded by developing a second skin. Leaving their own customs, habits, and skills behind, they participated in school and in the world by adapting themselves to fit the existing order. The acquisition of literacy left them not in [...]
Who am I?
Posted by: redlove on: November 12, 2007
In recent days it seems a fighting among the Korean Chinese is heating up day by day, which some outsiders might tease as “fight against themselves”. It was not some childish conflicts over certain trivial obsolete debts. In fact, all the disputes were brought about by an everlasting question, which has been perplexing all the [...]
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