RE: memetics-digest V1 #1300

From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Tue 04 Mar 2003 - 21:36:15 GMT

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    Thanks for the reference, Grant. Looks like a good one! L

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
    > Of Grant Callaghan
    > Sent: Tue, March 04, 2003 10:50 AM
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: RE: memetics-digest V1 #1300
    >
    >
    > MOTEL OF THE MYSTERIES, David Macaulay. Boston, Houghton
    > Mifflin, 1979, for
    > those who are not yet familiar with this gem of a classic on the
    > interpretation of artifacts for which user knowledge is no
    > longer available.
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Lawry
    >
    > Let me recommend to you once more Johnathan Spence's book, Treason by the
    > Book, in which he details how the Ching Dynasty emperor,
    > YongZheng, in the
    > 1720s, countered the memes of rebellion by writing a book that
    > examined the
    > claims of the rebels and refuted their assertions, then having the book
    > published throughout the empire. It's one of the best studies of Chinese
    > culture and a thin slice of history that I've ever read. Just as
    > interesting, perhaps, is the fact that Spence did most of his research in
    > Taipei, Taiwan using the artifacts that Chiang Kaishek brought
    > over with him
    > when he fled the mainland in 1949. Highly recommended.
    >
    > Grant
    >
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