Problematizing the Foreign Other; Mother, Father, and the Bastard in Mo Yan’s Large Breasts and Full Hips  

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Cai, Rong

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Modern China vol. 29 no. 1 (Jan. 2003), page 108-137.
Topik: Mother; Father; and the Bastard in Mo Yan’s Large Breasts and Full Hips
Fulltext: 108MC291.pdf (122.0KB)

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Ever since its first defeat by a Western power in the 1840s, Chin has had an ambivalent and tumultuous relationship with the foreign Other that had very rudely imposed itself. Formore than 150 years, the question of how to situate the native self vis-à-vis theWest has preoccupied Chinese intellectuals of various persuasions. The taskwas necessarily complicated because the foreign Other took on multiple identities. In the modern period, it was seen both as an aggressor inflicting shame and humiliation on the nation in its recent history and as a representative of a historically progressive force whose Enlightenment philosophy and advanced scientific knowledge could facilitate China’s belated modernization. The alien Other, as a result, was to be simultaneously admired and feared, emulated and contained. 1 The complex attitude continued in the post-Mao era, when the rush to modernize and the influx of Western technologies, critical theories, social practices, and pop culture induced both appreciation and apprehension of the West. The problem of how to configure the foreign Other in relation to the Chinese self therefore continues to be a subject of intellectual speculation.

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