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• The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.
• For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other…
• We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it…
• Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of…
• The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a…
• It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of…
• Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West…
• China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation…
• More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races,…
• There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small…
• The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical…
• The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese…

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