Western nations for centuries have used translation as a tool for cultural genocide. Historically there has always been rampant censorship in Western media and academia concerning Chinese terms and concepts. As a result, today’s Western ‘China Studies’ is 99% fabrication, modeled around Western biblical and philosophical categories. Breaking this monopoly of the language imperialists is very very difficult. But all is not lost. Already we witness a future generation of scholars in East and West in the making that will fight this great linguistic imbalances and struggle for the emancipation of Asian words. [WATCH FULL VIDEO HERE] or [READ ARTICLE AT ASIA TIMES]
