1Quoted in Marie-Pattle Ha, Figuring the East: Segalen,Malraux, Duras, and Barthes (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000), p. 32.
2Ha, Figuring the East, p. 32.
3Segalen, Rene Leys, 2:508. Quoted in Ha, Figuring the East, p. 31.
4Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Vintage,1973), p. xv,xix.
5Hugh Honour, Chinoiserie : The Vision of Cathay(New York: E. P. Dutton, 1961), pp. 7-8.
6Roland Barthes, "Well, and China?", trans. Lee Hildreth, Discourse 8 (Fall-Winter, 1986-87), p. 116; p.117,118.
7Diana Knight, Barthes and Utopia : Space, Travel, Writing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), p.184.
8Roland Barthes, Empire of Signs, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982), p. 108,110,30.
9Zhang Longxi, Mighty Opposites: From Dichotomies to Differences in the Comparative Study of China(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
10Francois Jullien et Thierry Marchaisse, Penser d 'un Dehors ( la Chine ) : Entretiens d ' Extreme - Occident(Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2000), p. 39,44.
