The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain by Eric Hayot

The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain

Eric Hayot

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Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to cruelty and to physical pain? What can the history of that idea and its expressions teach us about the politics of the We...

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