East and West (Signed)
by Chris Patten
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- ISBN 13
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"How will Asia--its vast population, its swirling politics, its recently challenged economics--change our world?
Few Western political figures can answer that question as well as Christopher Patten. For five years, Patten was the governor of Hong Kong, and as China prepared to reclaim its people and its land, he struggled to put in place democratic institutions that would ensure Hong Kong's continued vitality.
In East and West, Patten draws on those struggles to give us an intimate portrait of the real Asia, in all its diversity, and to make a vital argument for the common interest of Eastern and Western powers. The result is a startling departure from the conventional wisdom about China, power, and the future of Asia.
Starting from his own experience as governor, his attempt to introduce democracy to Hong Kong, and his often difficult relationship with both Chinese and Western business and political interests, Patten addresses some of the most vital, and often confused, issues of the coming century.
Patten dismisses talk of a monolithic "Asian value system"--in the East as well as the West--as a self-serving excuse for authoritarianism. While tumbling currencies have silenced talk of "the Asian economic miracle," scholars and politicians still make a living touting Asian exceptionalism, many suggesting that what works for the West cannot work for the East. But Patten argues that it already has. What took place in Asia in the last thirty years, he says, was similar to the industrialization of Europe and the United States, only much faster.
Ultimately, Patten argues that free markets and free politics sustain each other. In the East and in the West, political liberty and economic freedom march together. "I believe a process has likely begun which is irreversible," Patten writes, "and which will ensure that the next century belongs not to Asia or America or any other continent, but to those values which best combine decency and a good life. A hundred years ago, A. E Housman's 'steady drummer' best a warning of death and misery to come. Today, on the threshold of another century, the omens seem better. Eastward as well as westward, the land is bright."
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes, KG, CH, PC (born 1944) is a British politician who was the 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong from 1992 to 1997 and Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1992. He was made a life peer in 2005 and has been Chancellor of the University of Oxford since 2003.
This copy is fine in black cloth with gilt titles on the spine. No marks or damage at all. The unclipped DJ is also fine. Inscribed by the author on the title page in the year of publication.
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- Stanley Louis Remarkable Books (IOBA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B332
- Title
- East and West (Signed)
- Author
- Chris Patten
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, 2nd printing
- ISBN 10
- 0333747879
- ISBN 13
- 9780333747872
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
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