Bamboozled! : how America loses the intellectual game with Japan and its implications for our future in Asia /: how America loses the intellectual game with Japan and its implications for our future in Asia. (©2002)
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- Book
- Title:
- Bamboozled! : how America loses the intellectual game with Japan and its implications for our future in Asia /: how America loses the intellectual game with Japan and its implications for our future in Asia. (©2002)
- Main Title:
- Bamboozled! : how America loses the intellectual game with Japan and its implications for our future in Asia
- Further Information:
- Note: Ivan P. Hall.
- Other Names:
- Hall, Ivan P, 1932-
- Contents:
- Introduction: The old deal: why our muddled thinking matters -- I: ILLUSION: "ON A CLOTH UNTRUE": JAPANESE MENTALITIES, AMERICAN MISREADINGS: Economic mirage: the Asian crisis and "change" -- Anti-Americanism: Sayonara as the ultimate blackmail -- New old right: reactionaries in neoconservative garb -- Limping liberalism: civil courage derided as "leftist lite" -- Pan-Asianism: behind the bromides of East-West bridging -- Samurai ethic: premature prognoses of individualism -- II: COLLUSION: "WITH A TWISTED CUE": BINATIONAL CARTEL FOR SWEETNESS AND LIGHT: Special pleading: our rhetorical trouncing on trade -- Ostracism: sidelining the heterodox -- Yen: the Pavlovian trot for Japan's academic largesse -- Dollars: the long retreat of American philanthrophy -- Organization: the mutual understanding industry -- People: of buffers, barnacles, and gatekeepers -- III: SELF-DELUSION: "AND ELLIPTICAL BILLIARD BALLS": AMERICAN ROOTS OF WISHFUL THINKING: Gullible's Travels: our four faulty vision things -- Roller coaster: the prewar matrix of plus-minus images --MacArthur maxim: democratic missionizing through the 1950s -- Reischauer rubric: cultural sensitizing from the 1960s -- Number-Oneism: economic giantizing in the 1970s -- Brief awakening: revisionist turnaround in the 1980s -- Dumbing down: PC and othe intellectual follies of the 1990s -- Conclusion: The Punishment fits the crime.
- Publisher Details:
- Armonk, N.Y : M.E. Sharpe
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Copyright Date:
- 2002
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 324 pages)
- Subjects:
- 303.48/273052
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
Public opinion -- United States
International relations -- Psychological aspects
Public opinion
Public opinion, American
Relations
Culturele betrekkingen
United States -- Relations -- Japan
Japan -- Relations -- United States
Japan -- Foreign public opinion, American
United States -- Foreign relations -- Psychological aspects
Japan
United States - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781315290553
1315290553 - Related ISBNs:
- 0765610051
9780765610058 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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