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We live in a society where different people and different thoughts co-exist. Living together in a diversified society, you will inevitably have conflicts due to the thoughts and actions of those who are not like you. Now, shouldn’t we acknowledge that being different is nothing wrong in a sufficiently plural society and distinguish being different from being wrong? Our society has already fully experienced the fact that it is a certain group or a minority that benefits from opposition and division, and that it is the absolute majority that groans and suffers in it. Don’t we remember a history of pain on account of ideological conflicts? The overall visual balance was achieved through str...
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International journal of contemporary visual artists.
Chinese Colonial Entanglements takes a new geographical approach to understanding the Chinese diaspora, shining a light on Chinese engagement in labor, trade, and industry in the British colonies of the southern Asia Pacific. Starting from the 1880s, a decade when British colonization was rapidly expanding and establishing new industries and townships, this volume covers the period up to 1950, including the 1930s when economic competition saw new racialized immigration restrictions, and the 1940s when Chinese traders found new opportunities. The editors, Julia T. Martínez, Claire Lowrie, and Gregor Benton, bring together nine historians of Chinese diaspora in an effort to break down the bou...
Known for his ultraconservatism and eccentricity, Gu Hongming (1857-1928) remains one of the most controversial figures in modern Chinese intellectual history. A former member of the colonial elite from Penang who was educated in Europe, Gu, in his late twenties, became a Qing loyalist and Confucian spokesman who also defended concubinage, footbinding, and the queue. Seen as a reactionary by his Chinese contemporaries, Gu nevertheless gained fame as an Eastern prophet following the carnage of World War I, often paired with Rabindranath Tagore and Leo Tolstoy by Western and Japanese intellectuals. Rather than resort to the typical conception of Gu as an inscrutable eccentric, Chunmei Du argue...