Ezra Pound defined a lot of how the west sees chinese mythology (including journey to the west!) and he did not speak a fucking word of chinese. yet, his work is some of the most preserved! its nuts

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we have a very.. abrahamic? view of it almost. we fail to realize it as its own thing subconciously. Matteo ricci's story interest me as he was a jpriest who lived in china in the 1600s and wrote extensively but we didnt find it till ~400 years later and gave more depth to what we thought we knew

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YESSS i remember going through an excerpt from tha tbefore when iw as trying to learn more about this topic! (though a lot of it has faded from my mind lol) ive learned that its not that all attempts to bring information about these cultures to western eyes is bad faith, its moreso that (1/2)

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all it would take to say something very cool and meaningful is to actually give a fuck about asian culture! so i hope they take the high road.

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Deadass most of america and the uk's roots of interacting with eastern culture is orientalist dorks going over there and coming back with tall tales and thinking it went hard so they surface level took it and adapted it. and we still hold onto so many of these backwards ass beliefs. its crazy

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