One of the great foreign misconceptions about China is its homogeneity.The idea that China’s vast lands are populated by nearly 1.4 billion members of an identical culture,that there is somehow an archetypal Chinese ...One of the great foreign misconceptions about China is its homogeneity.The idea that China’s vast lands are populated by nearly 1.4 billion members of an identical culture,that there is somehow an archetypal Chinese landscape,a Chinese person,or that spoken Chinese is a singular language,rather than a family of languages at least comparable to that of the entire European continent,are all at times prevalent concepts in the West.展开更多
文摘One of the great foreign misconceptions about China is its homogeneity.The idea that China’s vast lands are populated by nearly 1.4 billion members of an identical culture,that there is somehow an archetypal Chinese landscape,a Chinese person,or that spoken Chinese is a singular language,rather than a family of languages at least comparable to that of the entire European continent,are all at times prevalent concepts in the West.
