Published 2002
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“…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
philanthropy -- 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.…”
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