A provocative collection of essays challenges the intellectual world of the West, arguing that Western consciousness has become ensnared in intellectual rigidity, and predicts that the twenty-first century will bring about a two-way exhange of ideas between the East and West. Original. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Prompted by their own new-found self-confidence and U.S. pressures on human rights, trade, environment, and labor standards, Singaporean and some other Asian leaders are reasserting Asian values and emphasizing differences between "the West and the rest...read more