Jenco, Leigh K. (2013) Revisiting Asian values. Journal of the History of Ideas, 74 (2). pp. 237-258. ISSN 0022-5037
Abstract
Asian Values discourse was widely criticized for its cultural inauthenticity and instrumentalism. However, its similarity to an early twentieth-century conversation about the values of “Eastern civilization” places it within a particular history of cultural assertion, which emerges when Asian experience defies expectations about the direction of future progress. Both discourses reformulate historically-central Chinese ideas in more general terms to carve out space between regional ethnocentrism and mimeticism of the West. Although sometimes co-opted by authoritarian elites, they nevertheless articulate “Asian” characteristics as challenges that transform, rather than traditional values which supplement, “Western” processes of modernization.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://jhi.pennpress.org/strands/jhi/home.htm;jses... |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 Journal of the history of ideas |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Sets: | Departments > Government |
| Date Deposited: | 07 May 2013 15:11 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/46520/ |
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