Word: east
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often challenged fellow East Asian scholars to reconsider their understanding of major issues in Chinese history, said Elizabeth J. Perry, Rosovsky Professor of Government...
Colleagues said this constant comparing of Chinese ideas to Western ones was one of Schwartz's lasting contributions to East Asian scholarship. He was what Gordon called an "obsessive relativizer...
Gordon first met Schwartz in 1970, when Schwartz taught what is now Historical Studies A-13, "Tradition and Transformation in East Asian Civilization: China...
...large part of Bush's attitude about knowledge comes from a combative anti-intellectualism he developed as a Texas-bred Bush attending Ivy League schools back East. Ever since George W. left Houston to follow in his father's footsteps at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he has viewed with deep suspicion and disdain the world of elite Northeastern academia and the people who populate it. Bush was one of the most popular students in his class at Yale. He mixed easily with the rich and the well bred, but, according to classmates, he developed an intense dislike...
Bush won't talk about Talbott specifically, but he will say "there is a certain East Coast attitude," an "intellectual arrogance" that he "didn't find very appealing" at Yale or, later, Harvard Business School. He suggests that the intellectual elite at Yale dismissed him as inferior, that there was, in his words, a "'You're from Texas, therefore' attitude" he resented. "And I still believe," he says, "that just because somebody's got an Ivy League title by their name doesn't make them smarter than anybody else...