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| New York/Tokyo - Thorsten Pattberg and Eric Draitser discuss Academic Imperialism |
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| Pattberg: "We have already annihilated China's spiritual shengren and the other archetypes. They are gone." |
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Pattberg Interview: A China Without Chinese?
NEW YORK/TOKYO – Eric Draitser sits down with Dr. Thorsten Pattberg to discuss academia, language and imperialism. Dr. Pattberg examines the ways in which academic imperialism is used to shape dominant discourse. CLICK HERE FOR PART ONE.
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Dear Thorsten,
ReplyDeleteI am from India. Its indeed great to know that this awakening about culture in taking place in China and is being promoted by no less than Peking University. Speaking from India, I feel that the colonial rule has been ruthlessly successful in erasing the Indian Philosophical and spiritual-cultural paradigm from the minds of people. This I feel is a great start especially because success (of China or India or any country for that matter) based on western developmental paradigm won't be sustainable in local sense. So surely this start will have positive effect upon Indian tradition also. Otherwise interaction of Indian and Chinese people on basis of 'imported' paradigms and values would be a classical loose-loose situation. But India needs a work a lot as it has to revisit its source and would have to work for inviting some those values today. Peking University deserves our thanks for taking this exemplary work in its focus.
Samir