Easternisation

Easternisation

War and Peace in the Asian Century

Book Review

Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century
Gideon Rachman
Bodley Head

A Chinese friend here in Beijing was talking the other day about the difference between xifang and dongfang – the West and the East. She said that “of course” Australia, which she hasn’t visited, is a country of xifangren – Westerners – and described their Caucasian physical features. But this stereotype can no longer be applied to Australia, with its many ethnicities, including a million citizens of Chinese heritage.

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