"During the upheavals of 1988, a curious legend circulated in Burma. It told of a small village that was terrorized by an evil dragon. Each year the dragon required the sacrifice of one young virgin from the village. And each year a brave young hero of the village would scale the nearby mountain to f"
"爱德华・萨义德( Edward Said)的《东方主义》( Orientalism)为出发点,提出一个理论:西方人无法按照东方和东方人自身的方式观看他们的文化和人民,只是把他们看成西方的创造物。如果东方只能通过西方的观念棱镜被观看和被解释,就注定了它会被描述成未开化的、不近情理的、缺乏法律和秩序的。"