[KS] Does "the Orient" still exist?

CHIRKOV D S dchirkov at fas.harvard.edu
Thu May 8 23:58:09 EDT 2003


Tikhonov:  .....renaming The Faculty of Oriental Studies into, say, 
Faculty of Asian and African Research hardly will cut off the links to 
the "disgraceful past".....

Correct.

In the spirit of Korean language purification... let's keep the Slavic 
word VOSTOK rather than the foreign word AZIYA and let English speaking 
countries fight the battle of political correctness and English 
language reform.

My main concern was with the intellectual connection - cordoning off so 
to speak - of Asian and Africa, which clearly isn’t one cultural zone. 
Right?

C.
dchirkov (at) fas harvard edu





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