Politics, Culture and Self: East Asian and North European Attitudes Borneo Dr Mikael Mattlin is collegium

Dr Mikael Mattlin is collegium researcher at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) and adjunct professor at the University of Turku

“Imagining the Course of Life is a delightful

He has written seven books on Burma

and Vietnamese

with new sections examining the social and economic changes that have transformed the country in the last two decades

Politics, Culture and Self: East Asian and North European Attitudes Borneo Dr Mikael Mattlin is collegiumGeir Helgesen and Sren Risbjerg Thomsen (eds) 2006, 293 (xviii+275) pp. 16 figures., 40 tables Paperback, 15x23 cm Globalization may be undermining Kiplings assertion that East is East and West is West but arguably this is more in the realms of technological advances and consumer behavior than in political culture. In the latter arena, much is still made of the contrasts between Eastern culture, characterized by collectivism and belief in authority,