This paper begins by demonstrating some of the astonishing and disconcerting talk of Chinese culture in academic, political and journalist discourse.

• 其次，这篇文章指出这个概念原来是人类学的专有名词，却对具有民族文化的人们，变成了具有感情与政治上意义的字汇，譬如对于日本人与中国人而言。