Leigh Jenco, Changing Referents

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Leigh Jenco, Changing Referents, p. 94
“Recognizing the inadequacy of their “Western Learning” in comparison to the changes undertaken by the now more modernized and militarized Japan, Chinese reformers urged radical bianfa, which literally translates as “institutional reform” or “a changing of ways.” In the context of these debates, however, the term can also be read as “a changing of referents,” in that Chinese thinkers urged not just the hybridization or translation of Western ideas into Chinese contexts but the total re-alignment of Chinese institutions and ways of life to accord with what they believed to be “Western” models. These conversations respond to the problem of subalternity by recognizing that knowledge-blindness—that is, the reason that China remained unable to generate knowledge as and like the Western nations did—was not only epistemological.”

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