It's Complicated: Getting our heads around a changing China
Sinica Podcast
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The Chinese Perspective Is Vital to Understanding China
There is one perspective vital to our understanding of china that is too often left out. We all understand this concept of ampathy, and except for some rare non eurotypical folks, we all possess it. While regular old ampathy might work when extended to people who are like us in our own society, with whom we have a lot in common, exist not enough when you're trying to get inside the head of someone from a very different culture or society. Sure, we are all human, but we were taught very different things in school. We relate to our history differently. We were brought up on entirely separate vocabularies of historical and mythological archetypes.
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