In John Fitzgerald's book Awakening China, he refers to the average Chinese person as "John Chinaman." Um, what the fuck? Since when is that scholarly acceptable? I mean the book was published in 1996, not 1896!
The name "John Chinaman" makes no sense anyway. It's as if a Chinese scholar called the average American "Wang Mayguo." Suuuure, there are millions of Wang Mayguos in America, didn't you know? There's nothing Chinese about the name John Chinaman. It's just ridiculous on top of being offensive. What's worse is he could just as easily have written "the average Chinese person..."
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