Why read Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples?

Book cover of Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples: India, China, Tibet, Japan

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First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1 author picked Ways of Thinking of Eastern Peoples as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Richard E. Nisbett

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The book shows some of the remarkable ways that Eastern and Western thought differs. I read the book 10 years before a brilliant Chinese student named Kaiping Peng came to work with me and told me right off the bat that I thought linearly and logically and he thought non-linearly and dialectically. That sounded like an exaggeration, but Nakamura’s book encouraged me to take Peng seriously. Our research together showed he was absolutely right. East Asian thought was shown by our experiments to be radically different in many ways from Western thought.

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