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A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzani
slow-paced
1.0
Terzani's loathing for Chinese permeates every page of this book. It's appalling that one can masquerade one's 'opinions' about the global south under the pretext of searching for spiritual answers from the 'exotic east'. Funnier still that he finds his peace at the end under the tutelage of another white man co opting the title of saint/teacher.
Yeah, so Terzani basically spent all of his travels about how the Chinese were money obsessed and lamenting about the destruction of eastern culture placing the blame solely on corrupt, shallow easterners while not once thinking about the heavy impact of colonialism in the first place. A colonizer's book through and through. Disgusting.
Yeah, so Terzani basically spent all of his travels about how the Chinese were money obsessed and lamenting about the destruction of eastern culture placing the blame solely on corrupt, shallow easterners while not once thinking about the heavy impact of colonialism in the first place. A colonizer's book through and through. Disgusting.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism