Confucius Lives Next Door What Living in the East Teaches Us about Living in the West

Name: Confucius Lives Next Door What Living in the East Teaches Us about Living in the West
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ISBN: 9780679777601

ISBN-10: 0679777601

ISBN-13: 9780679777601

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Authors: T. R. Reid

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"Fascinating...clearly stated, interesting and provoking.... A plainspoken account of living in Asia." --San Francisco Chronicle Anyone who has heard his weekly commentary on NPR knows that T. R. Reid is trenchant, funny, and deeply knowledgeable reporter and now he brings this erudition and humor to the five years he spent in Japan--where he served as The Washington Post's Tokyo bureau chief. He provides unique insights into the country and its 2,500-year-old Confucian tradition, a powerful ethical system that has played an integral role in the continent's "postwar miracle." Whether describing his neighbor calmly asserting that his son's loud bass playing brings disrepute on the…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/28/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

The author of five books in English and two in Japanese. Through his reporting for The Washington Post, his syndicated weekly column, and his lighthearted commentary from around the world for National Public Radio, he has become one of America's best-known foreign correspondents. Reid lives in London.