Maria_maria
04/11/08, 01:22 AM
Hi everyone! Care to share your reviews of the books you read?
The last book I read was Looking Into the Sun by James Fallows
Looking Into the Sun is a compilation of essays about modern political and economic systems in East Asia and how the West has failed to categorize these systems into Western political models. Fallows attempts to create a model to characterize Asian political systems and emphasizes how the East can develop economically without adopting the permissiveness of Western culture.
In this book he includes an essay written in 1987 on the Philippines as a damaged culture. The essay is actually available online here (http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/1987/11/a_damaged_culture_a_new_philip.php).
Looking Into the Sun is quite dated as far as the published date goes. But I think it's a good read if you need an understanding of how East Asian countries started to develop despite the difference in beliefs and practices from Western countries.
The last book I read was Looking Into the Sun by James Fallows
Looking Into the Sun is a compilation of essays about modern political and economic systems in East Asia and how the West has failed to categorize these systems into Western political models. Fallows attempts to create a model to characterize Asian political systems and emphasizes how the East can develop economically without adopting the permissiveness of Western culture.
In this book he includes an essay written in 1987 on the Philippines as a damaged culture. The essay is actually available online here (http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/1987/11/a_damaged_culture_a_new_philip.php).
Looking Into the Sun is quite dated as far as the published date goes. But I think it's a good read if you need an understanding of how East Asian countries started to develop despite the difference in beliefs and practices from Western countries.