Intercultural Education and European Vision of the Orient: Marx on China

Abstract The paper, first part of a research in progress, presents Karl Marx’s China representation through the dispatches for the New York Daily Tribune (1853-1860). The paper analyzes the articles on China in the context of Marx’s analysis of global capitalism. Moreover, the paper introduces Marx’s analysis on China in the educational field, particularly in the “intercultural education”, a world perspective on school subjects and curricula. In Italy and in Europe intercultural education focus on inclusion of immigrants in the educational system and in the criticism of the Eurocentric school subjects and curricula. The dispatches that Marx wrote on China for the New York Daily Tribune range from Opium Wars to commercial trades, from relationships between China and Russia to the T’ai-p’ing revolt until the repercussions that British colonial policy had on domestic policy in the United Kingdom. All this held together by the full awareness of the necessity, for British capital...