From the fraught world of geopolitics to business and the academy, it’s more vital than ever that Westerners and East Asians understand how each other thinks. As Jin Li shows in this groundbreaking work, the differences run deep. Li explores the philosophical origins of the concept of self in both cultures and synthesizes her findings with cutting-edge psychological research to reveal a fundamental contrast.
Westerners tend to think of the self as being, as a stable entity fix...
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Preface
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
1 To Be or Not to Be: That is a Strange Question
2 The Western Essential Self and the East Asian Particular Self
3 The ...
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Jin Li is Professor of Education and Human Development at Brown University. Originally from China, she studied German literature and language before moving to the United S...