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January 10, 2007

A peculiar "sameness"

Perry wrote:

"Although "identity" is not familiar in Chinese, the term "alienation" has been widely used in the 1980s to describe basically the opposite idea - namely, a sense of difference between oneself and an ideology or a group. "

“......but the identity that links Chinese and their state is not the willing or congenial sense of sameness of the sort one normally feels as part of a family, religious group, or social club. It is a sense of being bounded in an unequal relationship to something quite "other" than oneself, something like the identity shared by vassal and lord.“

Posted by Xiao at January 10, 2007 02:47 PM

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