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Michael Keevak
In On Saving Face, Michael Keevak traces the Western reception of the Chinese concept of “face” during the past two hundred years, arguing that it has always been linked to nineteenth-century colonialism. “Lose face” and “save face” have
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Michael Keevak
The story of how East Asians became'yellow'in the Western imagination—and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinkingIn their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan
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Michael Keevak
Western readers have yet to come to terms with the fact that during much of our history very little was ever “known” about China. There was never any lack of information from missionaries and travelers and traders. But what kind of information wa
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Michael Keevak
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On Saving Face ISBN: 9789888754281
After the end of the First Opium War in 1842, “face” had become a convenient colonial tool for the Western powers. They also introduced a new phrase that didn’t really exist in Chinese, “saving face,” which became a Western symbol of ridicu
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Autor:
Michael Keevak
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On Saving Face ISBN: 9789888754281
By the end of the nineteenth century, the idea of “saving face” had become so generalized that it began to appear in every variety of scholarly and popular commentary -- not just about China but indeed any context in which a person (or a governme
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Michael Keevak
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On Saving Face ISBN: 9789888754281
The word “face” was not noticed in Western commentary before the eighteenth century, but the Chinese were already noticed as having a special behavior even in the very earliest references dating back to the ancient Greeks. The country was noted f
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Autor:
Michael Keevak
On Saving Face traces the Western reception of the Chinese concept of “face” during the past two hundred years, arguing that it has always been linked to nineteenth-century Western colonialism. “Lose face” and “save face” have become so n
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Michael Keevak
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On Saving Face ISBN: 9789888754281
If “saving face” does exist in Chinese it means something very different from its Western counterpart. To “save face” in Confucian cultures means to preserve it (in oneself and in others), to keep it from being lost, not, as in Western usage,
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Michael Keevak
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On Saving Face ISBN: 9789888754281
The final step in the Western normalization of “face” occurred in the second half of the twentieth century, when an even more abstract idea of “saving face” would be adopted in a number of fields in Western social science. Although purportedl
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Autor:
Michael Keevak
Publikováno v:
Eighteenth-Century Studies. 53:711-712