ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the implications of positive orientalism with Sino-Japanese relations. Under Western colonialism and imperialism, the subjects of orientalism themselves have orientalized others, both internal and external, thereby entrenching their own orientalization, and reaping its conflictual consequences. Orientalism reflects the cultural face of imperialism. It involves a variety of domains: literature, education, politics and economics. Negative orientalism targets Confucian civilization equally, but for different reasons. Geography, culture, race and ideology sum up China and Chinese for mainstream America. Crossing boundaries of time, space and cultural language would highlight that true mind between China and Japan, from ancient to contemporary times. Buddhist koans started in Tang China. A public record sought to make an argument through speech, reasoning and judgement. The Diaoyutai-Senkaku Islands dispute displays all the attributes of classic Westphalian international relations: territorial claims, interstate rivalry, military might.
