The girl at the baggage claim : explaining the East-West culture gap
Title:
The girl at the baggage claim : explaining the East-West culture gap
Author:
Jen, Gish, author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Physical Description:
xviii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:
"A personal, provocative, informative, and entertaining study of the different idea Asians and Westerners have of the self and how this plays out in our differing approaches to art, learning, politics, business, and almost everything else"--
Language:
English
Contents:
Part I: We edit the world -- Three edits -- A telling irritation -- Some helpful background -- The Asian paradox -- Part II: The flexi-self -- What is a flexi-self? -- Boundary blurring -- The genius and the master -- Testing, testing -- Patterns and training -- Part III: The big pit self -- How WEIRD we are -- America, an explanation -- Part IV: Meetings and mixings -- Our talking, our selves -- In praise of Ambidependence -- Greatness in two flavors.
ISBN:
9781101947821
Format :
Book
