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9 December 2000
In Britain we are now living through a moment when traditional notions of national identity stand a chance of being renegotiated. It is at such a time that you can expect old ideas to reassert themselves. The feminising of Chinese culture may be one of the ways in which dominant discourse is trying to keep up with what is happening to traditional notions of private and public, home and abroad, us and them, as a way of maintaining the power differential. |