Asian Values, Western Dreams: Understanding the New Asia

About the author......Page 4
Title page......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 9
1 Introduction: Asian values live!......Page 11
2 California Dreaming: The Philippines in South East Asia......Page 26
3 A tragedy of shadows: Retribution and reconstruction in Indonesia amok......Page 48
4 Singapore: Origin, epicentre, exemplar......Page 74
5 Malaysia: The front-line state......Page 92
6 China and the Confucius theme park......Page 120
7 Capitalist characteristics: Hong Kong in the Chinese universe......Page 145
8 Taiwan\'s modernist rebuttal......Page 165
9 Culture, consumers and corruption in Buddhist Thailand......Page 184
10 Japan\'s dilemma: A lukewarm yen for urgent change......Page 201
11 Korean Confucianism: the hard variety......Page 226
12 Indian summer?......Page 253
13 The Asian superpower: America and the formation of Asian values......Page 275
14 Asian values on the road again......Page 303
Index......Page 328