Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newly-created junior Faculty position in Asian-American literature will not be filled until the fall of 1999, according to Leo Damrosch, chair of the English and American literature and language department...
...would have been interested in taking an Asian-American literature course as an elective," said Nancy Lin '99. "I'm disappointed...
Chan has also served as a co-president of the Asian American Association and volunteers as an English as a Second Language tutor with the Phillips Brooks House Association Chinatown Committee...
...have been East Asia's undoing. Cheap money can make people do silly things. In the 1980s it led them to pay ridiculous prices for stocks and real estate, and the fever spread from Tokyo to Bangkok. But even after the Japanese bubble burst, the experts on the Asian model justified similar excesses around the region because we were on the cusp of the Asian Century, one of limitless growth. The vaunted technocrats thought--or perhaps hoped--that they could once more invoke the Asian model to wipe away the looming mess. Only recently have most governments admitted that there...
Unfortunately that admission misses the point, for it is the top-down nature of the Asian model itself that is the real cause of the crisis. This model bred complacency, cronyism and corruption. Isolated from public opinion, just as they insulated bankers and businessmen from market forces, the technocrats ignored the deafening clamor of alarm bells that market forces have been ringing for years. Worse still, because there was no public scrutiny of the iron triangle of bureaucrats, businessmen and bankers, the natural coziness that developed in that clique led inevitably to decisions based on personal relations. At best this...