From: Scott Chase (ecphoric@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed 05 Mar 2003 - 06:01:46 GMT
>From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>Subject: RE: memetics-digest V1 #1300
>Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 07:49:54 -0800
>
>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.
>
>
Does Spence ever actually use the term "meme" himself in that book?
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