HIST285 Study Guide - Final Guide: Laziness, Chinese Nationalism, Firstclass

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Yutang: yutang includes an introduction from pearl s. buck, who states that a book worthy of. China"s history must be truthful and unashamed of the past, yet she is an american and yutang writes the book characterizing china as exotic and supernatural vitality. Supposedly writing on china as his country and his people. Yutang: china is now the most chaotic, the most misruled nation on earth according to the west (pg. League of nations, a western established organization, cannot help her fight her own civil wars (china is on her own: china does not care about her current state apathetic (pg. China"s destiny is to merely exist (pg. Amazing that she is still surviving even after rome and greece: chinese who speak english too well and develop western mental habits are denationalized (yutang, 8) Wcltsn: stir up nationalist feelings (compared to when china was just apathetic) (2, no to the mentality of inferiority. West: nationalism is a cultural instinct (5)