Metaphors of Mindlessness
Metaphors of Mindlessness
This chapter shows how Chinese people were represented by Western missionaries as mindless and “body-ful”. It explains that this attitude of missionaries toward the foreign mind appears in various metaphors of mindlessness which pervade the earlier-nineteenth-century reportage on China. It mentions that the Chinese were also sometimes viewed as a dense homogenous mass of bodies, as unemotional and unimaginative and as liars with no higher moral conscience.
Keywords: Chinese people, Western missionaries, mindlessness, foreign mind, China, moral conscience
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