The girl at the baggage claim
Subtitle: explaining the East-West culture gap
By: Gish Jen
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Knopf; Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781101947821
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: East and West; Culture; International economic relations; International relations; Social psychology; Culture conflict
Description: "A personal, provocative, informative, and entertaining study of the different idea Asians and Westerners have of the self and how this plays out in our differing approaches to art, learning, politics, business, and almost everything else"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: We edit the world; title: Three edits; title: A telling irritation; title: Some helpful background; title: Part II: The flexi-self; title: What is a flexi-self?; title: Boundary blurring; title: The genius and the master; title: Testing, testing; title: Patterns and training; title: Part III: The big pit self; title: How WEIRD we are; title: America, an explanation; title: Part IV: Meetings and mixings; title: Our talking, our selves; title: In praise of Ambidependence; title: Greatness in two flavors.