Saturday, May 12, 2018

The Otherness of Self. A Genealogy of the Self in Contemporary China (Xin Liu 2002)

https://www.press.umich.edu/12062/otherness_of_self

An exploration of the conflict between traditional Chinese ideology and modern Chinese business practice (amazon)

not sure if this one is about individual psyche, not sure he knows anything about psychology or psychoanalysis, though the book title suggests he might be so; so far, four books, not sure if he enjoys the way of life under American democracy, not sure he knows anything about Taiwan, not sure he cares about pre-1949 Chinese history, not sure if he is a not-so-secret admirer of PRC regime economically-politically-morally, but apparently he is amazed by the economic development, or money power, of PRC; not sure if he has anything to say about evil, not sure he really knows what evil means, and not sure he would regard that evil as "necessary evil"  (2018-5-12)