“The Ugly Chinaman” by Bo Yang

Bo Yang

“The Ugly Chinaman”

Speech given at Iowa University, 24 September 1984

For many years I’ve contemplated writing a book called The Ugly Chinaman.When the novel The Ugly American was published in the United States, the US State Department choose it as a guide to policy making. But when the Japanese ambassador to Argentina published a book called The Ugly Japanese, he was immediately recalled from his post. This is a good example of the gap that separates the East and the West.

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