China and Orientalism

Notes

Preface

1 While I return to these issues elsewhere, the single best place to begin remains Maurice Meisner's chapter, “The Legacies of the Maoist Era” in Mao's China and After.

1 Sinological-orientalism now: “China” and the new era

1 This rule is akin to what Partha Chatterjee later theorized as the “rule of colonial difference,” whereby the essential difference/inferiority of India always trumped various British efforts to govern its colony liberally and bring it into the modern fold.

2 See his The Politics of Imagining Asia as well as other citations here.

3 Chakrabarty: “Historicism - and even the modern, European idea of history - one might say, came to non-European peoples in the 19th century as somebody's way of saying ‘not yet’ to ...