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In one of our foremost specialists on Asia and its background comes this excellent dissection of the connection between East and West.  In three concise documents, Patrick Smith investigates the East’s try to adopt Western technology and all that people consider contemporary. He underscores an important difference between modernization (the easy emulation of the West) and the real job of “becoming modern.” He investigates the methods that three notable cultures—those of Japan, China, and India—evolved because they experienced materialistic international ethnicities and imported suggestions while protecting their very own customs. The result, Smith describes, has often been named “doubling”—a department of the home whereby Asians are open to American items and suggestions but concurrently refuse these same imports to stress the credibility of the “unmodern.”  Employing a great mixture of expression and reportage, Smith also investigates the often troubled relationship Asians have with background as a result of the activities with the West.