Ivan P. Hall

Bamboozled! (eBook, PDF)

How America Loses the Intellectual Game with Japan and Its Implications for Our Future in Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

This work illuminates the ways in which American ideological hubris and Japanese pleading for special treatment combine to deprive trans-Pacific dialogue of honesty, openness and common sense. It questions how well the US is prepared to deal with less friendly emerging powers like China and India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315290560
• Artikelnr.: 49364424

Autorenporträt

Ivan P. Hall, born on an American missionary college campus in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1932, received his B.A. in European History from Princeton, an M.A. in International Relations from the Fletcher School, and his PhD in Japanese History from Harvard in 1969. He is the author of Mori Arinori (1973) and Cartels of the Mind: Japan's Intellectual Closed Shop (1997). The latter was chosen by Business Week as one of the "Ten Best Business Books of 1997." Since 1999 he has been a visiting professor in Japanese history (pre-modern, modern, and intellectual) at Temple University of Japan in Tokyo.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Illusion: "On a Cloth Untrue"
Chapter one Economic Mirage
Chapter two Anti-Americanism
Chapter three New Old Right
Chapter four Limping Liberalism
Chapter five Pan-Asianism
Chapter six Samurai Ethic
Part ii Collusion: "With a Twisted Cue"
Chapter seven Special Pleading
Chapter eight Ostracism
Chapter nine Yen
Chapter ten Dollars
Chapter eleven Organization
Chapter twelve People
Part iii Self-Delusion: "And Elliptical Billiard Balls"
Chapter thirteen Gullible's Travels
Chapter fourteen Roller Coaster
Chapter fifteen MacArthur Maxim
Chapter sixteen Reischauer Rubric
Chapter seventeen Number-Oneism
Chapter eighteen Brief Awakening
Chapter nineteen Dumbing Down
Chapter 101 Conclusion: The Punishment Fits the Crime