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‘East is East, and West is West’?1 Reimagining Asian Exceptionalism and the Study of Democratization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2014

O. Fiona Yap
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Government and Opposition , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , January 2015 , pp. 140 - 163
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O. Fiona Yap is Associate Professor at Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. Contact email: fiona.yap@anu.edu.au.

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‘Oh, East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet’ (Kipling 1889).

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