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From one of our foremost experts on Asia and its history comes this brilliant dissection of the relationship between East and West. In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith investigates the East's endeavor to adopt Western technology and all that we consider modern. He underscores a crucial distinction between modernization (the simple emulation of the West) and the true task of "becoming modern." He examines the strategies that three prominent cultures--those of Japan, China, and India--evolved as they encountered materialistic foreign cultures and imported ideas while defending their own traditions. The result, Smith explains, has often been called "doubling"--a division of the self wherein Asians are receptive to Western products and ideas but simultaneously reject these same imports to emphasize the validity of the "unmodern." Employing an exceptional combination of reflection and reportage, Smith also examines the often troubled relationship Asians have with history as a result of their encounters with the West. Finally, he considers Asia's twenty-first-century attempt to define itself without reference to the West for the first time in modern history. The author foresees a new balance in the East-West dialogue--one in which the East transcends old ideals of nationhood (another Western import). Smith asserts that there are fundamental lessons in Asia's long struggle with the modern: In the twenty-first century, the East will challenge the West just as the West once challenged the East. This is a book of exceptional significance and extraordinary depth. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Patrick writes as an essay and not to give a conclusion.
He writes this from his background on living in Asia for 25 years. He focuses on China, India and Japan. I find myself going in the opposite direction in life with Patrick.
Patrick’s Essays starts with his story in Japan with his friend from Boston and ends with an answer from Shiv, from Ahmedabad. He asks the question,
“What does it mean to be Modern?”
“Can Asia understand itself without referring to the West?”
Patrick combines history, an idea of progress, self, time to distinct Eastern ways. He writes that east possibility could refer to themselves to create their own identity in the last chapter from Japan.
I came across a few new scholars from Japan, China that I did not know. Patrick explained the concept of doubling. Doubling he explains as modern-self was something put on above the traditional self. Japanese businessmen might wear western attire. To wear his traditional attire is not considered modern.
A Great Essay to attempt to explore his initial questions.
I would recommend this book to someone who wants to understand West and East. It might be a mini-intro to the history of China, Japan and India
Deus Vult,
Gottfried ( )