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In this chapter, “Speaking (of the) Dragon,” takes a longer view of this “Sino-Anglo Duet” in terms of the shared representations of dragons. Whereas mythical dragons exist in the West for Nordic heroes to make their fame, dragons are domesticated in the East, albeit shrouded in the Benjaminian aura of core Chineseness. Speak of the devil, to slay or to enslave—that is the choice the West and the East has made respectively, exemplified by the tenth-century Beowulf and the sixteenth-century Chinese classic Monkey (Journey to the West).
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Ma, Sm. (2017). Speaking (of the) Dragon: Slain by the West, Ridden by the East. In: Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58033-3_5
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