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 underscore…
An authoritative analysis of Asia's modern relationship with the Western world is comprised of three essays that examine the strategies of Japan, China, and India while investigating Asia's twenty-first-century efforts to define itself independently of Western influence.
Examines how the death of Emperor Hirohito, the end of the Cold War, and wealth are all contributing to contemporary changes in Japanese society.
The author "asserts that a variety of forces--the achievement of material affluence, the Cold War's end, and the death of Emperor Hirohito--are now spurring Japan once again toward a fundamental redefinition of itself" and that the Japanese are seeking to alter "the relationship…
Examines how the death of Emperor Hirohito, the end of the Cold War, and wealth are all contributing to contemporary changes in Japanese society.
"Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country's founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice between a mythical idea of the…
Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country's founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice between a mythical idea of them…