E ASIAN 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homo Economicus, Lao She, Rhetorical Device
26 Feb 2020
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Symbol (thing that stands for something else, esp. The rickshaw would make xiangzi free and independent, it would be like his own hands and feet (4) An important form of alienation: he xiangzi sells his physical vitality in pursuit of buying the means of production (rickshaw) Trope (a significant or recurrent theme or motif or rhetorical device which may have different meanings as it reappears throughout the text): calculation. Xiangzi"s discovery of the self : as a kind of homo economicus ( economic man": a hypothetical person who behaves according to rational self-interest. ) Or the imagined actors in adam smith"s wealth of nations. capitalist figure.
