Part 1 Beyond Eurocentrism Chapter 2 Everywhere and Nowhere Chapter 3 The Myth of the Other: China in the Eyes of the West Chapter 4 The Dream of a Butterfly Chapter 5 The Joy of Textualizing Japan: A Metacommentary on Ronald Barthe's Empire of Signs Chapter 6 Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses Part 7 Asian Thought in the Age of Globalization Chapter 8 Can Asians Think? Chapter 9 The Order of Interbeing Chapter 10 The Forms of Culture of the Classical Periods of East and West Seen from a Metaphysical Perspectives Chapter 11 The Significance of Ethics as the Study of Man Chapter 12 Beyond the Enlightenment Mentality Chapter 13 Is Culture Destiny? The Myth of Asia's Anti-Democratic values Chapter 14 Conceptualizing Human Beings Part 15 Toward a Transtopia Chapter 16 The Problem of Language in Cross-Cultural Studies Chapter 17 Universality in Culture Chapter 18 The Clash of Definitions Chapter 19 Hermeneutical Circles, Rehetorical Triangles, and Transversal Diagonals Chapter 20 Political Prosaics, Transversal Politics, and the Anarchical World Chapter 21 Polis and Cosmopolis