
White Colonials returning to Britain have been referred
to as:
"parvenus, cultural incompetents, morally suspect,
and indeed 'fictive' Europeans, somehow distinct from
the real thing." *
As an Australian child, I lived and traveled in Asia....but
I have never been to China.
This self portrait as Chairmain Mao is from a series of
hand bound books and inspired by a popular childhood game
in Australia known as Chinese whispers, where a sentence
is whispered from child to child seated in a circle. The
last child says out loud what they have heard; always
entirely different to what was originally whispered.
*Anne Laura Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire:
Foucoult's "History of Sexuality" and the Colonial
Order of Things (Durnham, N.C.: Duke University Press,
1995) p102
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