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Nov. 1: Edward Wadie Said; Trump: The Art of the Deal


2017.11.10

英文報紙和中文的，差很多啦：
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Analysis | Trump in Beijing: Art of the empty deal
Washington Post · 1 day ago


Trump: The Art of the Deal is a 1987 book credited to businessman Donald Trump and journalist Tony Schwartz. Part memoir and part business-advice book, it was the first book published by Trump, and helped to make him a "household name". Wikipedia
Originally published: November 1, 1987
Authors: Donald Trump, Tony Schwartz
Page count: 372
Adaptations: Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016)
Followed by: Trump: Surviving at the Top (1990)
Genres: Biography, Autobiography


Edward Wadie Said was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies. Wikipedia
Born: November 1, 1935, Mandatory Palestine
Died: September 25, 2003, New York City, New York, United States
Education: Harvard University (1964), Princeton University, MORE
Spouse: Maire Jaanus (m. 1962–1967), Mariam Said (m. ?–2003)
Influenced by: Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Karl Marx, MORE


“The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.”
―from ORIENTALISM (1978) by Edward Said

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