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Helle -- $tReligious Vitality in Contemporary China /$rHorst J. Helle -- $tMax Weber?s View of Religion in China /$rHorst J. Helle -- $tDaoism: China?s Native Religion /$rHorst J. Helle -- $tOracle-Bones: The Mandate of Heaven /$rHorst J. Helle -- $tConfucius: Recapture the Lost Splendor /$rHorst J. Helle -- $tThe West: Individualism at Its Limits /$rHorst J. Helle -- $tChina: The Kinship Society /$rHorst J. Helle -- $tChina: A Threatening Promise to the West /$rHorst J. Helle. 330 $aIn China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. For China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while behaviour in public relating to matters of government and the law is less reliable. In contrast, the West operates in reverse. 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In tales that entertain as much as they illuminate, these writers show how the moral and intellectual challenges of living cross-culturally revealed to them the limits of their perception and understanding.Their insights were gained only after discomforts resulting mainly from the authors' own blunders in the field. From Brazil to Botswana, Egypt to Indonesia, Mongolia to Pakistan, mistakes were made. Offering a gift to a Navajo man at the beginning of an interview, rather than the end, caused one author to lose his entire research project. In Côte d'Ivoire, a Western family was targeted by the village madman, leading the parents to fear for the safety of their child even as they suspected that their very presence had triggered his madness. 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