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Review title: Would have been a great magazine article
Product review: This book is simply not good. There is little academic rigor on display, plenty of emotional invective, and a thinly veiled contempt for the Asian male, some of which could be forgiven, if it wasn't so exasperatingly repetitive, cloying and one-dimensional. I just spent several minutes looking for one of my favorite lines, whereby the author suggests that some wildly gratuitous assertion be "taken as axiomatic". Sadly, I couldn't find it, but I am sure you'd have shared my bewilderment. Want axiom? The author's understanding of "Asia", or at least that which is found in the pages of this book, is as pedestrian and imbalanced as any on display. The problems with the book don't diminish the importance of the topic, but don't expect to be enlightened within its pages.
