Socio-cultural aspects of the relationship between the EU and East Asia, with particular reference to China

Asia Europe Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 265-294

  Golden, Seán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

China; Comparative sociocultural studies; Critique; Cross cultural transfer; Culture studies; EU China relations; Modernisation; Modernity; Paradigms; Postcolonialism; Postmodernity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745083067     PISSN: 16102932     EISSN: 16121031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10308-006-0055-5     Document Type: Article

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6. Oscar Wilde once said that the English and the Americans were two great peoples separated by a common language; in the current debate on transatlantic relations, it might be said that the EU and the US are two great peoples separated by a common Enlightenment. Cf. Seán Golden, "Valores asiáticos y multilateralismo", in S. Golden, (Ed.), Multilateralismo versus unilateralismo en Asia: El peso internacional de los "valores asiáticos". Barcelona: Edicions CIDOB, 2004, 103-32.
7. EU-China relations are not exempt from this process, as the rhetoric of the titles of two recent articles by US authors demonstrates: David Shambaugh, "China and Europe: The emerging axis", Current History, Vol. 103, No. 674, September 2004, pp. 243-248
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39. Ibid., p. 389. Another important study of ancient Chinese discourse is Xing Lu, Rhetoric in Ancient China, fifth to third century, B.C.E.: A comparison with classical Greek rhetoric. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1998.
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58. Ibid.
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66. Ibid.
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