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[cuddlefish]

Ugly Images of Asian Rivals Become Best Sellers in Japan

(If NYT won't let you read it, tell me so I can copy+paste or something.)

No words. Oh, sweetie, you were doing so WELL, too.

I tried to show this to Yang and he signed off. I'm worried.

Comments

[xephyris.livejournal.com]

You gotta respect him for being so frank about his thoughts (w

I actually did a whole semester of research regarding Fukuzawa Yukichi (mentioned in article as being the intellectual who provided the intellectual underpinning of Japan's subsequent invasion and colonization of Asian nations) - and I ended up thinking how great a man he was, even though some of his thinking was a little extreme.

Datsu-a-ron (On Leaving Asia), which Fukuzawa wrote and which is mentioned in that article, is often cited as an example of his "imperialist" ideas, but the research I did indicates that it was more a reponse to the Korean government's (with the aid of Yuan Shikai's and the Chinese military - which is someone I don't likew) merciless suppression of the nationalist / independence party at that time, which Fukuzawa actually supported, thinking that they'd lead Korea towards modernisation. Read in context with the other stuff he published that the time, as well as the rest of the articles published in the same paper the Datsu-a-ron was published, and you find that the "imperialist" interpretation starts losing weight.

Wow, that was long. I think I'd better not start rambling about my research here or I'll be bv4nn3d! soon w

[moumusu.livejournal.com]

Well, it's fine to ramble. To be honest, if you said anything to really piss me off I might not even catch it. I'm too uneducated to actually form an argument of my own so I might not say anything at all. I just post articles HAHA.

What really draws my attention isn't Fukuzawa's opinions 100+ years ago, it's this comic book discussed in the article. "The book describes China as the "world's prostitution superpower" and says, without offering evidence, that prostitution accounts for 10 percent of the country's gross domestic product." And dismissing the Rape of Nanjing? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. I don't think you should dooooo thaaaat.

[xephyris.livejournal.com]

Ahahah - that's why he's extreme Right Wing, though - by definition, they do things like that, ohoho. Pulling claims out of their nether regions and whitewashing large amounts of history is all in a day of work!

Good thing sane people like us know better than to implicitly believe in what they have to say :)

I don't know if you're uneducated or not and I certainly am not qualified to judge - but you're clear, coherent, and readable, and that's A++ in my books. (≧∇≦)b

[moumusu.livejournal.com]

Well thanks. XD