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The Girl at the Baggage Claim

其他書名	Explaining the East-West Culture Gap
出版	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017-02-28
主題	Psychology / Social PsychologySocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialBusiness & Economics / International / General
ISBN	11019478379781101947838
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=41NcDAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Drawing on a trove of personal accounts and cutting-edge research, a “timely and extremely important” book (The Washington Post) from the acclaimed, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon that shows how our worldviews are shaped—and what that might mean for the shared future of the United States and China.

As East and West become more and more entwined, we also continue to baffle one another. What’s more important—self-sacrifice or self-definition? Do we ultimately answer to something larger than ourselves—a family, a religion, a troop? Or is our mantra “To thine own self be true”?

Gish Jen shows how our worldviews are shaped by what cultural psychologists call "independent" and "interdependent" models of selfhood. Coloring what we perceive, remember, do, make, and tell, imbuing everything from our ideas about copying to our conceptions of human rights, these models help explain why the United States produced Apple while China created Alibaba—and what that might mean for our future. As engaging as it is fascinating, The Girl at the Baggage Claim is a book that profoundly transforms our understanding of ourselves and our time.