pynchon-l-digest V2 #1543

[Doug Millison]

>Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:57:11 +0100
>From: "Otto Sell" <o.sell at telda.net>
>Subject: Re: pomo
>[snip]
>Not only in "modern societies" -  by the way - is Red-China modern, was
>Nazi-Germany modern?


I've lived in the PRC, speak the language fluently, and visited just 
this past October as co-leader of a professional exchange delegation. 
Yes, China is modern, in the sense both of embracing (if only at an 
official level --  popular culture remains a vast stew of traditional 
and more recent influences) the Enlightment project and 
industrialization, with a recent, open-armed embrace of multinational 
globalization.  Pynchon would seem to invite us to turn our attention 
to China, in M&D.   I have no interest in discussing any of this on 
Pynchon-L, but I welcome offlist correspondence.

Millisonically,
Doug

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