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| | Transnational China Project Sponsored Commentary, Wei-Ming Tu on Asian Values and the Asian Crisis |
 | | Anyway, I am not a culturalist in the sense that I try to explain complicated economic, political processes in cultural terms. |
 | | I am not a culturalist at all, even though Thomas Johnson, a very good friend of mine, said, "He is an institutionalist, whereas Wei-Ming Tu is always a culturalist." I am not a culturalist in the sense that I want to use these cultural values to explain social political processes. |
 | | If you can explain a phenomenon, like the Asian crisis now, in terms of pure economic features -- like the banking system, like financial problems, like international trade, the market mechanism -- if you can explain these phenomena in terms of economic terms without appealing to any other extra-economic factors, I will be satisfied. |
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