Alternative Discourses on Modernization and Development : East Asian Perspectives

This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical ideas enrich the reformulation of the concept of development or societal development, and how influential principles of traditional culture such as yin-yang dialectic interact with modern ideas and technology. It addresses the significance of alternative discourses as culturally independent scholarship, and the problems of pervasive mechanisms of social, political, economic, and cultural dependence in the global academic world.

Author: Kim Kyong-Dong

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: May 18, 2017

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 9811034664

ISBN-13: 9789811034664