Re: Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen

[Joe Brennan <jbren1@optonline.net>]

> Anyway, YSK is targetting a specific group - Westerners that
> fear China - and not a race. He makes a generalization by citing the head
of
> the
> American sino-phobe group.


But it's based on a wrong interpretation in his original note. Rusk wasn't
mis or archaically pronouncing "Beijing" as "Peking" to be annoying*  Rusk
was using another name: Peiping, for a specific political reason, to show
solidarity with the Nationalists whose name for the city that was at the
time. Anway saying anti-Chinese Communism made Rusk a "sino-phobe" is
anachronistic at best. Anti communists wanted to view the communist victory
as undoable, and "Peiping" was meant to symbolize that. A statement about
Chinese politics that is, not about China as a whole much less Chinese. It's
actually topical to US attitudes Sino-US, KW I think; highly misleading
statement as originally made by YSK, and describing US anti-communists as
"sino phobes" literally true maybe, ("feared") but a bit misleading too IMO.

Joe

*Beijing not even the accepted name then. Now, some people nowadays *do* say
Peking just to be annoying and show they don't have to follow anybody's
conventions. One would just sound like a cretan to say "Peking" in a modern
international business setting. But  maybe modern business settings are for
weenies, so for those who want to say Peking: good luck and be well!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Massey" <will@netpath.net>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen



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