HIST285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Ethnic Cleansing, Edward Said, These Three
15 Nov 2017
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Orientalism/china exotic, china revolutionary/maoism, occidentalism, 1980s present. Brett harte: east is sly and sneaky, straightforward west, bill nye frontier style writing, good ol" bill , my language is so plain, the chinese is so sneaky but harte"s language is the sneaky one. Short stories: corruption of the chinese, white women beware the heathen chinee man, ethnic cleansing. Fu manchu: satan fearful character, smart but no balance. If it is the western way, it is the universal way! Boxer rebellion attacked some of the foreign embassies, wilhelm ii was outraged at that. Orientalism: proposed by palestinian scholar edward said, trying to capture a recurring attitude from what could be the west (something that shifts christendom until the enlightenment) towards another exotic. The other that is exotic: west vs other (people that started asia, first sign of orientalism: ancient greeks fighting the persians (5th century bce .
