Cultural Politics and Asian Values: The Tepid War (Routledge Advances in Asian-Pacificstudies, 6)

__Cultural Politics and Asian Values__ looks at the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of 'the West', with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics: democratization, the international human rights discourse, NGOs and globalisation.The book surveys the political history and pre-history of the 'Asian values' debate, taking it up to the era of Megawati Sukarnoputri, Chen Shui-bian and Kim Dae-jung. In chapters on Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and liberalism, Barr explores the histories and conceptual essences of the world religions involved in or affected by the debate. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 12 List of abbreviations......Page 14 Cultural politics......Page 16 Death of a debate?......Page 18 A broad history: from Meiji to 'East Asian Miracle'......Page 27 Narrow histories: Lee Kuan Yew and Dr Mahathir......Page 45 Confronting China after the end of history......Page 61 Fin de sicle: 'Democratic Moment', financial crisis and beyond......Page 79 Values and religions......Page 92 Of liberalism and other religions......Page 94 The European legacy: Christianity and liberalism......Page 105 Islam: of Shari'a and Adat; Caliphs and Rajas......Page 136 Buddhism: the politics of compassion......Page 153 Confucianism: humane rites and elite rights......Page 172 Cultural politics and Asian values......Page 190 'Asian values' revisited......Page 192 Human rights revisited......Page 203 Glossary......Page 209 Notes......Page 211 Bibliography......Page 234 Index......Page 251

Cultural Politics and Asian Values looks at the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of 'the West', with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics: democratization, the international human rights discourse, NGOs and globalisation.

The book surveys the political history and pre-history of the 'Asian values' debate, taking it up to the era of Megawati Sukarnoputri, Chen Shui-bian and Kim Dae-jung. In chapters on Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and liberalism, Barr explores the histories and conceptual essences of the world religions involved in or affected by the debate.

Cultural Politics and Asian Values looks at the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of 'the West', with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics: democratization, the international human rights discourse, NGOs and globalisation.
The book surveys the political history and pre-history of the 'Asian values' debate, taking it up to the era of Megawati Sukarnoputri, Chen Shui-bian and Kim Dae-jung. In chapters on Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and liberalism, Barr explores the histories and conceptual essences of the world religions involved in or affected by the debate. An exploration of the political, cultural and religious background of East and Southeast Asian societies and those of the West, with a view to seeing how they are affecting contemporary national and international politics