Coda: When Small is Big and Big is Small
Size matters, so the saying goes. And yet. I happen to be visiting professor in Chengdu for a three-year period, and it came as a shock for my students at Sichuan University when I told them that the number of my fellow Danes only amounts to one-third of the population of their home city, which hold...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Size matters, so the saying goes. And yet. I happen to be visiting professor in Chengdu for a three-year period, and it came as a shock for my students at Sichuan University when I told them that the number of my fellow Danes only amounts to one-third of the population of their home city, which holds around 16 million people. And for China as a whole – well, to compare the number of my compatriots with the entire population of China exceeds my mathematical skills. ‘But Hans Christian Andersen, Isak Dinesen, crime fiction, some Danish movies and TV series have |
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| DOI: | 10.2307/j.ctvvb7kq9.18 |