Page 189 - There is no document of Civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.
Page 71 - Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger; An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966...
Page 280 - Although the Japanese chose to depict the Chinese retreat as an act of collective cowardice, in fact Zhang Xueliang's soldiers were following orders. On the advice of Chiang Kaishek, head of the Guomindang central government to which Zhang Xueliang declared allegiance in 1928, Zhang's army responded to Japanese aggression with 'non-resistance', while Guomindang diplomats appealed to the League of Nations for diplomatic intervention in the Sino-Japanese dispute. But incessant boasting about the '10,000...
Page 282 - ... also the cultural consumers who took a vicarious part in the violence. Another dimension of the Chinese stereotype constructed in the context of the Japanese war fever was the idea that the Chinese (unlike themselves) lacked patriotism. At a time when the rise of organised Chinese nationalism posed a serious challenge to Japan's position on the continent, the Japanese told themselves stories of the self-absorbed indifference of the masses to the fate of the nation. The popular travel writer Goto...
Page 70 - Janice Radway Reading the Romance (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1984...
Page 74 - ... this fetishism has been replaced in the world at large (now seeing the world as one, large, interactive system, composed of many complex sub-systems) by two mutually supportive descendants, the first of which I call production fetishism, and the second of which I call the fetishism of the consumer.
Page 74 - ... even worker) control, national productivity, and territorial sovereignty. To the extent that various kinds of free-trade zones have become the models for production at large, especially of high-tech commodities, production has itself become a fetish, obscuring not social relations as such but the relations of production, which are increasingly transnational. The locality (both in the sense of the local factory or site of production and in the extended sense of the nationstate) becomes a fetish...
Page 74 - I call production fetishism and the second, the fetishism of the consumer. By production fetishism I mean an illusion created by contemporary transnational production loci that masks translocal capital, transnational earning flows, global management, and often faraway workers (engaged in various kinds of high-tech putting-out operations) in the idiom and spectacle of local (sometimes even worker) control, national productivity, and territorial sovereignty.
Page 282 - ordinary crimes of bribery and betrayal" illustrated the character of the Chinese soldiers with a drawing of two Chinese warlords, one with a giant "money" magnet pulling the army off the other warlord's weaker magnet. The accompanying text read, "Civil wars occur often in China but it is rare for these conflicts to be resolved by a decisive military victory. Rather, victory is decided through one side purchasing the betrayal of the enemy with money. . . . According to Japan's code of war it is shameful...