02169nam a22002417a 4500 20220407161908.0 220407b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9812049681 Aloy eng 23 950.4 MAHC Kishore Mahbubani 28352 Can Asians think? Singapore Times Books International 1999 190 p. PB 19x13 cm. KISHORE MAHBUBANI has been hailed as "an Asian Toynbee, preoccupied with the rise and fall of civilizations" (The Economist), a "Max Weber of the new 'Confucian ethic'" (Washington Post), and "a prototype twenty-first century leader" (Time). A must-read for anyone with even a passing interest in contemporary Asia, this collection of provocative essays is certain to challenge the way you think. Asia's societies were more culturally and economically advanced than Europe's at the end of the first millennium. And yet by the nineteenth century the West had leaped so far ahead that even some Asians themselves harbored images of inferiority. Mahbubani's analysis of the past and predictions for the future amount to a wake-up call to Asians and Westerners alike. In diverse pieces such as "The Ten Commandments for Developing Countries" and "The Dangers of Decadence: What the Rest Can Teach the West," he asserts that Westerners are largely unaware of their condescending attitudes and practices toward the East and maintain that outdated worldview at their own peril - Asia's economies are poised to surpass those of Europe and North America within the next fifty years. No one who reads these iconoclastic, unabashed arguments will ever regard East-West relations in the same light. “If you are looking for insight into how others perceive us—and the events of September 11 underscore that need—then I know of no better guide than Kishore Mahbubani. His collection of lively essays will both inform and challenge your thinking.” Asia 28353 East and West 28354 Civilization 28355 Values 28356 MAHBUBANI (Kishore) 28357 ddc GF 222264 222264 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 950.4 MAHC GF03191 2022-04-07 00:00:00 2022-04-07 GF