Asian Power and Politics

The Cultural Dimensions of Authority

Lucian W. Pye

With Mary W. Pye

    Preface

    1. Asia and Theories of Development

    2. The Evolution of Asian Concepts of Power

    3. East Asia: Varieties of Confucian Authority

    4. Southeast Asia: From God-Kings to the Power of Personal Connections

    5. The South Asian Subcontinent: Hindu and Muslim Power and the Rewards of Narcissism

    6. The Riddle of Japan: The Combining of Competition and Consensus

    7. China: The Illusion of Omnipotence

    8. Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam: Forms of Aggressive Confucianism

    9. Malaysia: Confrontation of Two Incompatible Cultures

    10. Islamic Power: The Pulls of Reformism and Fundamentalism

    11. The Substance of Asian Power: Formal Structures and Informal Relations

    12. Paternalistic Authority and the Triumph of Dependency

    Notes

    Index

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Lucian Pye is Ford Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the author of Mao Tse-Tung: The Man in the Leader.