SOMEBODY ELSE’S CENTURY: EAST AND WEST IN A POST-WESTERN WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 02740010B34647
English Summary/英文概要： In three succinct essays, Patrick Smith chronicles the East’s long-standing efforts to adopt all that the West considers modern. He underscores a crucial distinction between modernization—the simple emulation of the West—and the actual challenge of becoming modern.
He examines the strategies that three prominent cultures—those of Japan, China, and India—have evolved for importing aspects of foreign cultures while preserving the core of their own traditions. He explores the often-troubled relationship Asia has had with its own history as a result of its encounters with the West. And he investigates Asia’s twenty-first century attempt—for the first time in modern history—to define itself without reference to the West. Smith foresees a new balance in the East-West dialogue—where old ideals of nationhood (another Western import) are transcended, and where the East will challenge the West just as it was once challenged by the West.
A work of rare and penetrating insight, understanding, and intelligence on a subject of increasing importance.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 亞洲國家在進入21世紀後，首度嘗試不透過西方視角來定義自身的存在，其成果如何？
全球政經如今似已化約至G2 ─ 中、美兩國之間的角力&合作
但當角力的戰場拓展至文化場域時，存在於東西文化之間的內在矛盾卻持續困擾著亞洲國家在中國急欲掌握話語權的同時，西方文明價值是否將因此受到嚴峻挑戰，東西文化之間是否有可能找到一個協合發展的平衡點？
本書作者檢視亞洲國家在進入21世紀後，首度嘗試不透過西方視角來定義自身的存在，其成果如何？嫻熟亞洲歷史發展的Patrick Smith在簡短三個章節中，細剖中間發展脈絡，提出答案(Kate Cheng)
Awards/获奖情况：“This thoughtful and highly original meditation on the future of Asian societies should be required reading for anyone interested in where our planet is heading.”---Chalmers Johnson, author of Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
“[There are] paradoxes aplenty within this serene, astute book, which will invite much discussion.”---Kirkus Reviews
“Ruminative and high-toned…A gift-box of suggestions, it could push thinking about Asia into a deeper dimension.”---Time Magazine
“The great human and strategic subject of the next generation will be the interaction between Asian societies increasingly confident of their achievements, prerogatives, and power, and Westerners increasingly nervous on the same score. Patrick Smith’s decades of immersion in the variety of Asian life give him an original, elegantly wrought, and important perspective on this change. Even when I disagreed with his conclusions I found myself thinking about the rich and careful way he makes his case. I am very glad to have read this book.”---James Fallows, author of Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China
“Searching and philosophical…offers a valuable intellectual frame for approaching the evolving relationship between the East and the West.”---Publishers Weekly
"Thoroughly absorbing…The writing is more poetic in tone than political, a gentle hand-holding, guiding readers from past to present."---Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Written from the perspective of an author that travels the world in search of something and comes back with just as many questions as he might have found answers…Kudos to Patrick for this. It’s definitely a book for the history books.”---Cyrus Webb, host of Conversations LIVE! Radio
About the Author/作者介绍： Patrick Smith 曾因The Nippon Challenge and Japan一書贏得Overseas Press Club Award 海外出版俱樂部獎和桐山環太平洋文學獎（Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize），其文章並曾刊登於英美主要雜誌，如國際先鋒論壇報、紐約客、商業周刊、經濟學人、遠東經濟評論、華盛頓期刊等。作者目前定居香港和紐約兩地。
Format:HARDCOVER
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