Thorsten Pattberg

“ On a philosophical level, the idea of a masculine West and a feminine East that transcendent all human experiences and forms a sense of liberation and harmony - Blaise Pascal called it ‘logique du cour’ or ‘wisdom of the heart’ - is a popular concept of dualism, also evident in Yin and Yang (阴阳) : the feminine or negative principle in nature, or moon, and the masculine or positive principle in nature, or sun. ”

“ Therefore when a husband who is sick or invalided from over-work requires a handmaid, a hand rack or eye rack to enable him to get well and to fit him for his life work, the wife in China with her selflessness, gives it to him just as a good wife in Europe and America gives an arm chair or goat’s milk to her husband when he is sick or requires it. ”

“ Here – the destructive power of the short-sighted masculine West, who narrow-mindedly focuses on objects, not relations, and who wants to exploit and manipulate those objects in order to control nature and all things. ”

“ Now, this open attitude towards concubines, mistresses and handmaids is so strikingly omnipresent in Asia (especially in Thailand, Vietnam, China, Japan etc.) that it usually does alienate, if not ‘knock off’, the average American or European mind:
The Chinese feminine ideal is, for a wife to live to absolutely, selflessly for her husband. ”

“ Chan, this is what Western men usually do in China. Or, at least that is what they aspire to do - and not only in China, but in the whole of East-Asia. To put this into socio-economic perspective: in an international world, Ms. Asia has already pinched Ms. Europe’s boyfriend. “She” will make sure that her culture prevails, and, believe it or not, “he” will spend his money on her and, facing the shortage of children and crisis back home, will bid their future on her and her kin. ”

“ Where prostitution is cheap, people are beautiful, slim, young, even easy to marry, where languages are unreadable, and where Asian body types, in particular their exotic facial features, skin color and genital configurations seemed to arouse Western man to the very heights of exoticism and bizarreness (Lin, 2007) , there will be a market for it: I have met the plaything which I have, vaguely perhaps, desired all my life: a little talking cat. [...] her head, the size of your first, is poised, and seems unreal, on a child’s neck, a neck too long and too thin ”