[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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