PART I. Beyond Eurocentrism
Everywhere and nowhere / Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Beyond Eurocentrism: the world-system and the limits of modernity / Enrique Dussel
Myth of the other: China in the eyes of the West / Zhang Longxi
Dream of a butterfly / Rey Chow
Joy of textualizing Japan: a metacommentoary on Roland Barthe's Empire of signs / Hwa Yol Jung
Under Western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty
PART II. Asian thought in the age of globalization
Can Asians think? / Kishore Mahbubani
Order of interbeing / Thich Nhat Hanh
Forms of culture of the classical periods of East and West seen from a metaphysical perspective / Nishida Kitarô
Significance of ethics as the study of man / Watsuji Tetsurô
Beyond the enlightenment mentality / Tu Weiming
Is culture destiny? The myth of Asia's anti-democratic values / Kim Dae Jung
Conceptualizing human beings / Bhikhu Parekh
PART III. Toward a transtopia
Problem of language in cross-cultural studies / Lydia H. Liu
Universality in culture / Judith Butler
Clash of definitions / Edward W. Said
Hermeneutical circles, rhetorical triangles, and transversal diagonals / Calvin O. Schrag
Political prosaics, transversal politics, and the anarchical world / David Campbell
Polis and cosmopolis / Fred Dallmayr