Abstract

It is not only the world of letters and politics that The Ballad of East and West is sung in various keys. For 19thand 20th-century social researchers the temptation to depict the social institutions of Europe, on the one hand, and those of Asia, on the other, as being radically different and to analyze them on the basis of simple polarized dichotomies, has also repeatedly proven irresistible. The continuing Western expansion in Asia and the successful capitalist industrialization in some North Atlantic states seem to confirm the validity of what are frequently "essentialistic" bifurcations.

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