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Notes
1 Asia Rising, by Jim Rohwer, p. 24. Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 1996.
2 Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, by Gunnar Myrdal. Twentieth Century Fund/Pantheon Books, 1968.
3 Contemporary Southeast Asia, by Robert C. Bone, Jr., pp. 114â16. Random House, 1962.
4 Emerging Asia: Changes and Challenges, p. 11 and p. 21. Asian Development Bank, 1997; and see âAsiaâs population advantageâ, The Economist, 13 September 1997.
5 See, for example, Thai Culture in Transition, pp. 61ff, by William Klausner. The Siam Society, Bangkok, 1997.
6 Anwar was sacked by Mahathir Mohamad, the prime minister, in late 1998 and detained after leading pro-democracy demonstrations.
1 Following Ho Chi Minh: The Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel, by Bui Tin (translated and adapted by Judy Stowe and Do Van). Hurst and Co., 1995.
2 Although he focused on the near east, not the far east, the classic text on this subject is Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient, by Edward W. Said. Penguin, 1995 (first published by Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978).
3 As the writer Ian Buruma noted, the missionary and the libertine changed places. (The Missionary and the Libertine. Faber and Faber, 1996.)
4 âCulture Is Destiny; A Conversation with Lee Kuan Yewâ, by Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, March/April 1994.
5 Indonesia, for instance, won independence from the Dutch in 1949, while Malaysia (as Malaya, because it had yet to incorporate the Borneo states) became independent in 1957.
6 Published in English as The Voice of Asia: Two Leaders Discuss the Coming Century, by Mahathir Mohamad and Shintaro Ishihara. Kodansha International, 1995. Shintaro had already made his name with the bestselling nationalistic work, The Japan That Can Say No.
7 See Japan in War and Peace: Essays on History, Culture and Race, p. 48, by John Dower. Fontana Press, 1996.
8 Asian Values and Modernization, ed. Seah Chee-Meow. Singapore University Press, 1977.
9 âPolitics and Cultural Myths: Democracy Asian style versus the Westâ, by Stephanie Lawson, the Asia-Pacific magazine, June 1996. âA proponent of the new model, Wu Teh Yao, claimed than an Eastern form of democracy could be arrived at through these means, producing a new model of rule called âConsencracyâ. What is notably absent from this neologism is the qualifier derived from demos â the people. In its place we find consensus.â
10 Interview with the author, 25 April 1997.
11 âThe United States: âGo East, Young Manâ,â by Kishore Mahbubani, The Washington Quarterly, Spring 1994. One of his points was that it was now the Americans whose thinking had become so rigid that they were unable to raise important questions about their own society.
12 âThe 10 Values That Undergird East Asian Strength and Successâ, by Tommy Koh, International Herald Tribune, 11 December 1993.
13 Listen to the Emerging Markets of Southeast Asia: Long-Term Strategies for Effective Partnerships, by Corrado G. M. Letta. John Wiley and Sons, 1996.
14 âAsian Values Deserve More Respectâ, by Reginald Dale, International Herald Tribune, 17 May 1995.
15 The âneo-Orientalistâ view has been perpetuated by sociological studies which were sometimes misinterpreted by others and which sometimes concentrated on historical material that failed to take account of the rapid effects of modernization. âMost Asians respect authority too much to share the western distrust of authority and power,â wrote Lucian Pye. â. . . people in those [Asian] cultures have positive feelings about dependency and have usually regarded a craving for autonomy as quixotic and unbecoming in civil relations.â (Asian Power and Politics: The Cultural Dimensions of Authority, by Lucian W. Pye, with Mary W. Pye. Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1985.)
16 âSingapore Flogging Defense: The âChaosâ on US Streetsâ, by Philip Shenon, New York Times, 13 April 1994.
17 Interview with the author, 1 April 1997.
18 âManilaâs Dirty Harry returns to the beatâ, by Edward Luce, Financial Times, 30 June 1996.
19 Interview with the author, 31 March 1997.
20 âConfucius or convenience?â, by Victor Mallet, Financial Times, 5 March 1994.
21 Private communication with the author.
22 Interview with the author, 26 February 1997.
23 Interview with the author, 31 March 1997.
24 Interview with the author, 20 March 1997.
25 Interview with the author, 28 January 1997.
26 Interview with the author, 19 February 1997.
27 âGo East, Young Manâ, by Kishore Mahbubani, Far Eastern Economic Review, 19 May 1994.
28 âIndustrial conflict in west at 50-year lowâ, by Robert Taylor, Financial Times, 9 April 1996.
29 âThe Uncertain States: The US should be enjoying a peace dividend rather than an unease dividendâ, by Gerard Baker, Financial Times, 29â31 March 1997; âMajor Crime Falls Again, But Why?â by Fox Butterfield, International Herald Tribune, 6 January 1997.
30 Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient, p. 328 in Penguin Books edition, 1995, by Edward Said. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978.
31 Corruption and Democracy in Thailand, p.145, by Pasuk Phongpaichit and Sungsidh...
