Wu tingfang biography of abraham lincoln
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Today, Wu Ting-fang looks at America.
Wu tingfang biography of abraham lincoln
The University of Houston presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
1914: Wu Ting-fang has served eight years as a Chinese diplomat in the West.
Now, prodded by an American woman, he's written a book on America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat. It makes a disorienting, but useful, look at ourselves, even today.
Urbane and literate, Wu systematically breaks American culture into components: manners, education, government, ...
This is no caricature, but an insightful diagnosis of America, long before China started to be a major player on the international stage. It was still feudal and isolationist -- and perhaps, in some respects, we were as well.
Wu's opening gambit is about names.
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When he met a man named Coffinhe was truly revolted. Names are too important. He's not superstitious (he claims) but such a name is surely cursed.