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" Can Asians think? : "
Kishore Mahbubani.
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BL
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1005369
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b759739
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| Main Entry
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Mahbubani, Kishore.
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Can Asians think? : : understanding the divide between East and West /\ Kishore Mahbubani.
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| Edition Statement
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1st Steerforth ed.
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| Publication Statement
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South Royalton, Vt. :: Steerforth Press ;[Berkeley, CA] :: Distributed by Publishers Group West,, ©2002.
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207 pages ;; 23 cm
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158642033X
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: 9781586420338
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Previously published: Toronto : Key Porter Books, 2001.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Can Asians think? -- Asia's lost millennium -- Asian values -- The West and the rest -- An Asian perspective on human rights and freedom of the press -- Pol Pot : the paradox of moral correctness -- The dangers of decadence : what the rest can teach the West -- The rest of the West? -- The Asia-Pacific -- Japan adrift -- "The Pacific Impulse" -- Seven paradoxes on Asia-Pacific security -- Global concerns -- UN : sunrise or sunset organization in the twenty-first century? -- Bridging the divide : the Singapore experience -- The ten commandments for developing countries in the nineties.
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| Abstract
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Poses questions about the relationship between Eastern and Western cultures, the future of Asian societies, and the effects of globalization.
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East and West.
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Values-- Asia.
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Civilization.
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East and West.
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Values.
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Asia, Civilization, 20th century.
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Asia, Civilization, 20th century.
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Asia.
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| Dewey Classification
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950.4
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DS35.2.M35 2002
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