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end it is over

Wow, this saint concept sounds really problematic.

This is so refreshing to read. Even though it is about the specifics of Han racism (how e.g. it defines levels of humaness to other ethnicities), it has much better sentence structure than the prior chapters.

He definitely says that Han racism exists, that is w elcome change from what I usually hear on the topic of racism.

Ok, the guy just has too bad of sentence structure for me to keep track of what he is doing. I will jump to the last chapter now because that one's title at least suggests something interesting, unlike the prior ones where I often have no clue what is going on.

Saying that the chinese chauvinism cultivated by Chiang Kai-shek and his son harmed Taiwanese society is new.

In the taiwanese media that I consumed so far this desire to be acknowledged by the mainlanders doesn't come across as he suggests it here. It seems rather that national sovereignity was not acknowledged not so much any identity. Did it change so much over the last 20 years? Or is this a KMT thing?

In the chinese world French civilization represents the pinnacle of the mysterious and romantic western culture? That is new. to me. I remember some things that would fit that but not that much as he suggests here.

In an earlier passage he critisized someone for taking exceptional anectdotes as something common, but it seems to me that he does the same here when he claims the Taiwanese ideology of belonging to Southeast Asia due to aboriginal ties to be something widespread.

He says that South Korea, Taiwan, mainland China, India and Sri-Lanka are in third-world locations. But while I can see why the latter three could be considered third-world if you go by the Cold War structures, but how does that work with South Korea and Taiwan? Both were firmly in the western camp during the Cold War and economically, they weren't third world either at the time and certainly not today.

Apparently he does consider Germany and other European areas to be politically, economically and culturally colonized by the US.

Considered that this book came out in 2006, I do wonder what the author would write today in regards to the topics of China's opening, deimperrialization, regional integration and the fear of China in the rest of East Asia.

So during the Cold War, the Left projected its romantic longing onto China (and became confused and disillusioned by the Cultural Revolution) and the right projected its colonial nostalgia onto Taiwan (seen as the real China as well as a shadow Japan) and South Korea. Ironic.

Hm, his statements regarding China and colonialism can either be interpreted that it was colonized but not in the same way as Taiwan and Korea, or that it wasn't colonized at all. Curious. He doesn't even seem to consider Manchuria to be a colony, merely a puppet state. And if he considers Japan to be colonized due to American occupation, does that mean he considers Germany to have been colonized?

the words that he is using are easy enough to understand, but his sentence structure of cramming many smaller sentences into one, make it difficult to follow him.

Him saying that postcolonial studies is obsessed with the West is definitely an early plus for this book.

sigh, forwords with roman numerals... at least these were only 14 pages