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November 10, 2004 - 1:59 p.m.

John Peel http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/johnpeel /story/0,15271,1349914,00.html 李白 访戴天山道士不遇 犬吠水声中 桃花带雨浓 树深时见鹿 溪午不闻钟 野竹分青霭 飞泉挂碧峰 无人知所去 愁倚两三松 Àî°× Apparently Li Bo wrote this when he was around 18. I cant accept that there are some people who are that gifted. there must be an excuse. Recycling poetic cliches? yeah..that's what he did. ..... - i fully realise im too reverent towards these poems. why should these words take on extra signifcance just because they're written in Chinese? - Hm, the Chinese character conjours up ideas and is magic. - Bullshit, its just a language. Anyone can see this is just Orientalist fetishism! - I like dragons and peach blossom imagery so sue me. ... http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/orientalism.htm Said makes the claim that the whole of Western European and American scholarship, literature, and cultural representation and stereotype creates and reinforces prejudice against non-Western cultures, putting them in the classification of Oriental (or "Others"). The heart of the matter in understanding Orientalism is this power relationship and how the Occident has used and continues to use and understand the Orient on its own terms.

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