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9780415277648

Cultural Politics and Asian Values: The Tepid War

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415277648

  • ISBN10:

    0415277647

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-10-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Cultural Politics and Asian Valueslooks at the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of 'the West' with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics: democratization, the international human rights discourse, NGOs and globalization.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
List of abbreviations
xiii
PART I Cultural politics
1(76)
Death of a debate?
3(9)
A broad history: from Meiji to `East Asian Miracle'
12(18)
Narrow histories: Lee Kuan Yew and Dr Mahathir
30(16)
Confronting China after the end of history
46(18)
Fin de siecle: `Democratic Moment', financial crisis and beyond
64(13)
PART II Values and religions
77(98)
Of liberalism and other religions
79(11)
The European legacy: Christianity and liberalism
90(31)
Islam: of Shari'a and Adat; Caliphs and Rajas
121(17)
Buddhism: the politics of compassion
138(19)
Confucianism: humane rites and elite rights
157(18)
PART III Cultural politics and Asian values
175(19)
`Asian values' revisited
177(11)
Human rights revisited
188(6)
Glossary 194(2)
Notes 196(23)
Bibliography 219(17)
Index 236

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